I turn off my car and get out and try it again, sounds like the motor is trying to do something, but nothing is happening so it's probably not the battery. Nope, deffiently not the battery otherwise I wouldn't hear anything... I try the the garage door opener on the wall since it doesn't use the battery... yeah, it didn't work... I knew it wasn't going to but like an idiot I try it anyway. Twice more for good measure, then once more with the remote in case it changed it's mind.
I try to open the garage door with my hand, but after a few seconds I realize that it's just not going to work with the chain and pulley system the garage door opener adds to the mix. Hmm... I'm trapped in my garage. What the heck, I'm a smart guy, I climb onto the roof of my car and open up the case for the garage door opener so I can see exactly what's happening... Well, it looks like this dohicky here turns this other thing here but it's not doing it... I poke things to make sure I look professional, but it doesn't seem to help. Good thing I just took a shower and put on clean clothes since my hands are now coated with black grease and I now have dirt on my butt from sitting on the roof... I should get a car wash when I fix this...
I start my car again... still sounds pathetic, but it starts. We've got a big two car garage, I bet I can just go back and fourth in the garage until I'm on Justins side and then back out normally. I crank the wheel and pull forward as far as I can, then crank the wheel and start backing up. I get to the end of the garage and I think to myself, wouldn't that be embarassing if I hit the garage like my friend Teri did? Nah... I know better, if I hadn't actually thought about it in advance I probably would have because it's still a tight squeeze, but I'll be extra careful... thump... Hmm... I'm a bit closer than I thought to that garage door aren't I? Teri's gonna love this...
I crank the wheel again and try to pull forward some and I realize that there is all kinds of crap in the garage that is going to make this really difficult. I shut down the car again and think I should probably leave my car running before I finish off the battery...
15 minutes later I've moved everything except the second fridge out of the garage and start my car again... Starting the car is just getting harder and harder, I really need to just leave it running. I pull forward a little for the extra space and bump into the shelf on our front wall, I crank the wheel and back up. Before hitting the garage, I throw it in drive again and crank the wheel again. I do this about 10 times before I realize just how much this is like Paralel parking and exactly how bad I am at it... I get this funny mental image of myself getting my car wedged into a corner and not being able to get it out without news 13 showing up to report it as a human interest story. I work my way back to my starting position and shut down the car.
Screw this, I unhook the garage door from the garage door opener and smile triumphantly as I attempt to open the garage door... It still won't move. It may not be attached to the garge door opener, but it's still there and blocking the normal path of the garage door. I'm glad the people at work can't see what I'm doing, like they are ever going to trust me with tech support again. I force the garage door opener into the open position so the actual garage door can slide open the way it should manually. Success!!!!!
Alright let's just move my car outside and I'll hook it all back up and see if either justin knows whats wrong with it or see if I can get someone out to take a look at it. I hop back in my car...
Hmm... won't start... sounds like the battery is dead... probably should have left the car running so it would recharge some...
I've waited a bit and I've managed to get my car started again, I'm leaving it running while I send out this email and then I'll start moving stuff into the garage, and then finally I think I'm going to drive for a while, just for the heck of it.. no reason...