WTF: Epic way to start the day! (Not)

[OGG]

Few things in life can make your stomach do random gymnastics like walking out of your house in the morning to discover that your garage door has been open all night... with the lights on!

Apparently, Mrs. OGG brought something in through the garage last night and somehow didn't close the door. She swears she remembered hitting the button and hearing the door start to close. It's very likely that one of the cats heard it closing and ran inside triggering the little laser thingymabob that stops the door and raises it back up. I've seen them do it a few times already. This is why I always pause at the doorway to the house to make sure it properly shuts.

Anyway, no harm, no foul I suppose. Somehow, everything seems to be undisturbed. Here's what I saw first thing this morning though, and I nearly shat twinkies.

Could have been Christmas in April for somebody. Guess that somebody was me.

 

[Mark Wein]

Yikes. I've done that before but we don't have anything that valuable in our garage. still a shock to the system though.

 

[mongooz]

 

[rhino]

That'll make you cut a carrot.

 

[shoeless]

Yikes. I've done that before but we don't have anything that valuable in our garage. still a shock to the system though.

This exactly. The most anyone would get out of my garage are some hand and power tools. Your garage is...ummm...very well stocked.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Why were you eating Twinkies?

 

[DFB]

Holy carp. Glad nothing went missing.

 

[tompetty]

It was probably the beware of cat sign that spared you....

 

[baimun]

Because I have so much gear in my garage too, I have this annoying habit of (almost to the point of OCD) I check outside the window every night to make sure the door is shut, even if I just checked it an hour ago.... when we're leaving, I audibly say "shut the garage door" while backing out of the driveway and I STILL get to the exit of our neighborhood and ask my wife about half the time "I closed the garage door, right?"

I can't tell you how many times we've turned around to go check again, and it's always been shut.

 

[tiger roach]

Yikes! Glad nothing walked away.

 

[CBHScott]

Isn't "shat Twinkies" redundant?









Years ago, before we moved to a much quieter, sticks-y area, the wife forgot to close our garage door, and we our bikes got lifted rather expediantly. They were POS, but still...

 

[Tiltsta]

Glad everything was still there. I've done that a few times over the years with similar luck. I don't have music gear out there, but I have a lot of tools an telescope stuff that would be a valuable and easy thing to steal/sell.

 

[bsman]

I'm betting OGG was heard to utter a rather loud OMG!

Glad everything is still in its place.

 

[micwalt]

Yikes!
I try to remember to always check it before I turn the alarm on and go to bed.

 

[BlockInlay]

ski masks, check
big empty van, check
OGG family heading out for the day, check
garage-door-infiltrating cats, check

 

[Dudeman1967]

Anyone happening by last night with a mind to steal something had to think "Looks like a setup."

 

[Theodore]

I would have demoed some of that shit for sure.

 

[335clone]

Yikes.

 

[BlockInlay]

I would have demoed some of that shit for sure.

Would have been sweet to wake up to an impromptu hobo jam session.

 

[Lerxst]

When I lived with my folks as a young person, we used to not only leave our garage door open occasionally but left the keys in the cars out in the garage & drive way too. Today, they no longer do either.