KEY RING (12 june 2008)
Things you can't find ....
And keys are the worst! You want to leave the house, but when you return you'd like to get in again, wouldn't you? So just before you go you quickly try to grab your keys. But where the hell did you leave them?
Everybody knows the experience. And as you grow older, it only seems to get worse!
So I was elated when a shop in my neighbourhood offered a device for sale which was advertized as keychain with keyfinder:
Being a 'small-device maniac' (click, click ) and having spent hundreds of hours looking for keys I just had to buy this. And the price was definitely the least problem: one Euro!
So from now on my key problem would be solved! All I had to do was whistle and my keyring would report itself!
I hung the keys on the ring and whistled. And lo and behold! The ring responded with both light and sound signals.
The following day I had the radio on, where a Mozart piano concerto was played. Suddenly I heard an instrument which Wolfgang Amadeus had not intended.
You probably guess what it was: the keyring was merrily playing its own part. the contraption was only be silenced after I'd put it in a cupboard wrapped in a towel.
The following days the keyring repeatedly displayed the nasty habit of starting to beep at the most unexpected moments. When my housemates talked a bit loud, when I walked to the front door with the keys, when people were cheering because the Dutch team played great football. Again and again the keyring announced its presence.
Well, at the moment the device has been put away in a towel in the cupboard. And I'm afraid that in the future I just have to go looking for my keys as before.
