Mystery Solved

I didn’t figure out the “why” of the garage door opening by itself until I got in the car the next day. Of course, the better-half joked that maybe the snake slithered into my car, hit the button and was waiting for me in the back seat. I checked the car out when I got into it. If there had been a snake in there every single person in a 5 mile radius would have known about it. Good thing for the local community there wasn’t a snake in my car.

Anyway, back to the mystery of the garage door. I have one of those middle consoles and it is a two-parter. Hit one switch and the top opens a small shallow storage area and hit the other switch and the bottom deeper storage area opens. Earlier that day I had to go out to the car to get my emergency dollar out of the shallow storage area so I could go to the local Mexican place for lunch. We have calculated that it costs about $8 to eat there and I could only come up with $6 in dollars and $1 in quarters. That’ll teach me not to go by the ATM. When I opened the shallow storage area, a pen I keep in there flew into the back seat. I retrieved it and hastily shoved it back into place. Then I smacked the lid down and went to lunch.

When I opened the compartment the next day to replace the emergency dollar, I noticed the garage door opener was shoved way in the back and directly under the hinge. I think the hinge relaxed and pressed the garage door opener and opened and closed the door.

The garage door hasn’t “magically” opened and closed itself since then so I’m pretty confident the mystery has been solved.