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I never wanted to carry a lot of stuff with me. I'd keep the contents of my pockets to a minimum. As few keys on my keyring as possible, and no wallet - just cash wrapped around my ID and a credit card. Over the years, I got more and more stuff to carry. At some point I started using a moneyclip, and then graduated to a real wallet. And shortly entered the cell phone era. And then car keys went from simple metal keys to the fat electronic kind. And phones got a little bigger. More bigger stuff.
But then I got an app on my phone that can control the garage door opener remotely. My mom needed to borrow my front door key in May, to come in and water the plants. I got it back from her but didn't put it back on my key ring. I can open the garage door with my phone if need be, but I'm usually in my car if I'm coming home to a locked house. I used to always have a key to my mom's house, but now there's an electronic lock, and I know the combination. I always had a third key, but when I was looking at it, I realized I didn't know what it was for. So of my remaining three keys, only two were useful, and those only marginally.
And then, with the new car came not a fat electronic key, but a much larger fob. Here's a photo of my old keychain, and the new fob. See the metal chain thing? A friend made it for me when I got my first car, over 35 years ago. That's the one unnecessarily large thing I've carried around in my pockets. But now that fob is so big, I'm not putting the old keychain on it, or even any keys.
So I say goodbye to the old keychain.
But then I got an app on my phone that can control the garage door opener remotely. My mom needed to borrow my front door key in May, to come in and water the plants. I got it back from her but didn't put it back on my key ring. I can open the garage door with my phone if need be, but I'm usually in my car if I'm coming home to a locked house. I used to always have a key to my mom's house, but now there's an electronic lock, and I know the combination. I always had a third key, but when I was looking at it, I realized I didn't know what it was for. So of my remaining three keys, only two were useful, and those only marginally.
And then, with the new car came not a fat electronic key, but a much larger fob. Here's a photo of my old keychain, and the new fob. See the metal chain thing? A friend made it for me when I got my first car, over 35 years ago. That's the one unnecessarily large thing I've carried around in my pockets. But now that fob is so big, I'm not putting the old keychain on it, or even any keys.
So I say goodbye to the old keychain.
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