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a keycard carol
Oct. 3rd, 2013 02:10 amModern hotels have switched to keycards as of quite a while ago. It's a nifty technology, and some years ago I read a contraband manual on them as some improving weekend reading. It turns out the cards themselves are delicate motherfuckers, and will lose their programming when in the same pocket as a cellphone, when within an adjacent waving hand of a cellphone, and probably due to static shock when stored in, and taken out of, a nylon pocket in a late, dry, Fairbanks fall.
There was one day when everybody -- especially me -- had trouble with them. It may have been the third day, or maybe the fourth. I think it was Sunday. I had to go to the front desk at least three times, despite my subsequent precautions.
On the third trip (that day; there had been at least one the previous day) my brain commenced tumbling around "I did it again" when I was on the elevator, and by the time I got down to the desk:
"Oops I did it again,
I blanked out my card
It's not that difficult--" I sang, presenting my card to the clerk on duty, who had been taking all the keycard-related shenanigans with good humor.
Oh, baby, baby.
After that I wised up, and realized that I had with me a perfectly good RFID-blocking, cellphone-signal-jamming, hard shell aluminum wallet, and took to carrying it around in that.
There was one day when everybody -- especially me -- had trouble with them. It may have been the third day, or maybe the fourth. I think it was Sunday. I had to go to the front desk at least three times, despite my subsequent precautions.
On the third trip (that day; there had been at least one the previous day) my brain commenced tumbling around "I did it again" when I was on the elevator, and by the time I got down to the desk:
"Oops I did it again,
I blanked out my card
It's not that difficult--" I sang, presenting my card to the clerk on duty, who had been taking all the keycard-related shenanigans with good humor.
Oh, baby, baby.
After that I wised up, and realized that I had with me a perfectly good RFID-blocking, cellphone-signal-jamming, hard shell aluminum wallet, and took to carrying it around in that.
