Access to our building is controlled at each but the front main doors by the use of swipe cards.
You place your card in close proximity to a black detector thing, the LED changes from red to green, the thing beeps and you can open the door.
Though I've only ever kept my card in my wallet, I guess it's had a few too many trips through the washer and a little too few dollars in the wallet to protect the card from flexure.
Not only is it dirty and cruddy-looking (from just being in my wallet- where does the crud come from), but it's got more than one crack running through it.
In order to get in the building I have to hold the card against the detector gently bending it slightly this way and that until I hear the beep. And even all that monkey business doesn't work at all the doors.
I went outside a while ago to drop 9 postcards in the blue mailbox at the corner of the two streets that edge our parking lot, and I couldn't get back in the door I came out of.
That's OK. It's a nice day for a walk, but I think I need a new card.
Posted by Roger at April 2, 2003 02:40 PM