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[Dirk_Crisis]

First off, I'm an idiot. But take heart gentle reader for this is a tale of triumph over adversity!

Due to a series of events I still can't fathom, I dropped my flicky keyfob down the drain on Saturday.

After an hour of trawling through detritus in the drain with a net and with the help of a man with a crowbar/sledgehammer, we retrieved my flicky keyfob.

And to my surprise, the remote central locking still worked after an hour of the fob being submerged in mud/water.

Soooo the moral of the story is don't park over drains. And the build quality of the flicky keyfob is superb. That last bit was an observation rather than a moral.

I'd better get my typhoid shots now then. Man, I'm such a n00b.

 

[Jai]

i always wondered how id get my keys back if i ever dropped them down a drain...now i know.....outstanding work!!!!

 

[Doug123]

Extremely lucky for you that your wheel wasn't on top of the drain cover. Otherwise, retrieving your keys might have posed somewhat more of a challenge...............
Doug

 

[pandissimo]

What a tale! I have house keys, bike keys, car keys on my fob, if they went down a drain I'd be snookered.

But, pray tell, where did you get the net from? Do you carry one in your car? Are you a phantom shrimper? Did you rob some poor woman of her fishnet tights?


We must certainly know these things to be prepared for the future.....

 

[Jai]

keeps an emergency waterprrof packet of such items gaffer taped to the inside of the pandas voluminous rear bumper...

 

[Dirk_Crisis]

I was parked outside a mates house at the time. He has a fish pond and, fortunately, a net. I hear you can get floating keyrings. Is this true?

 

[pandissimo]

I was parked outside a mates house at the time. He has a fish pond and, fortunately, a net. I hear you can get floating keyrings. Is this true?

Actually that's a good idea, the boat chandlers sell them, but it's a huge lump of cork on a rope, nearly the size of a snooker ball. But if prevents drainage disaster......................

 

[Jai]

did you have to spray some "oust" on it too?!

 

[Dirk_Crisis]

Nope ran it under the tap with some soap (I had assumed that the remote stuff had stopped working by that point) and all was well.