miscellany

God bless this man! I have hit that damn button on my remote so many times that I've wanted to just rip it out of the remote! Who woulda thunk it'd be so easy to circumvent?!!! Why do manufacturers still put these damn things in cars? I mean, who even pays attention to a car alarm anymore? They could at least put a flip-cover over the button!

How to disable your car alarm panic button non-destructively

If you're like me you have a janitor's key chain with twenty things on it. At least once a week I set off the panic alarm on my truck by accident because one of the gadgets on my key chain presses the button. In fact the only time I ever intentionally use the panic button is when I'm trying to locate my truck in a parking garage. But I've realized I can get the same honk and light flash by clicking the arm button twice and since I rarely panic anymore I now have zero use for this button. Here is the trick I came up with this evening to eliminate the annoyance of accidentally triggering the alarm: