Oh dear! Last Friday when I got home, my fingers hung on that cold door lock keyboard, and my mind suddenly went blank. The password I remembered so clearly when I left home in the morning seems to have been sucked away by aliens now! Standing at the door, rummaging through my bag and taking out my phone, I was so anxious that I kept stamping my feet. Key? Spare key? It was no longer known which nook or cranny it was stuffed into eight hundred years ago! One can’t really sleep in the corridor, can they? Cold sweat is breaking out.
Grandpa Wang, my neighbor, came back from his walk and looked at me like an ant on a hot pan. He chuckled and said, “What’s up, girl?” Is it competing with this high-tech door lock with keypad again? I think this thing is not as substantial as my old copper lock! This statement says… I’d like to use the old copper lock, but this thing doesn’t have a keyhole! In despair, I turned a dead horse into a living horse doctor and began to press blindly. Believe it or not, I really got the first step right – finding that legendary “reset” hole or button! The hell knows where it is, the instruction manual? On the day of moving, it was all thrown into the trash along with the packaging box. It’s usually right under the keyboard or inside the battery cover. It’s extremely concealed and you have to use a paper clip or a card pin to poke hard.
A random press (the so-called “steps”) :
Poke that small hole! Exert force! Hold down and don’t let go! It feels like my fingers are about to cramp.
The other hand is blindly pressing on the keyboard, as if to press the “#” key or the “*” key? Who cares? Pressing it all once is always right, isn’t it? The keyboard crackled. At this moment, eh? The keyboard light seems to have gone out for a moment? Is it bright again? There’s a chance!
Enter the new password quickly! I lost my son’s birthday, 123456. Easy to remember! Press a “#” to confirm as soon as you finish typing. My heart is in my throat…
How many times did the light flash again? No response? It’s so frustrating! Wait. It seems… Ok? Try the new password again quickly… Oh my God! The door clicked and opened! That moment made me want to cry!
(Later I remembered) Oh, right! It seems that after poking the small hole, the battery still needs to be unplugged and the power cut off for one minute? It seems that I haven’t pulled it out? Anyway, in the end, I got it all done in a muddled way… What a stroke of luck! If I had known it was so simple, I wouldn’t have been so scared that I broke out in a sweat.
By the way, before making a small hole, it seems that the battery should be removed first? Is it roughly written like this in the instruction manual? Anyway, I was so panicked at that time that I just poked it with my hand. It seemed that nothing serious happened… The new password has been set, but isn’t this 123456 too simple? What if the thief gets it right? A more complicated one has to be changed tomorrow. But then again, the door lock with keypad sign installed at Grandpa Wang’s home last month has a golden panel. It’s really nice. It looks more upscale than the silver one at my home.
Lesson:
Set the new password and try it right away! Try several times! Don’t be like me, only happy. If you don’t set a new password, you’ll feel embarrassed.
Find a place to write it down! Don’t be too confident. Write it in the encrypted memo on your phone, or slip a note to a relative you absolutely trust (don’t put it under the doormat!) .
Spare key! A bloody lesson! You have to rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find it out, or simply get a new one and put it in the office or a reliable friend’s house. This kind of bad memory can’t be relied on the brain!
The last straw for saving lives:
If the above-mentioned random poking and pressing method doesn’t work at all, the keyboard light doesn’t light up, or there’s no response even when it’s punctured… Alas, then I can only obediently rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find that mysterious manual. Really can’t find it? Or is it still not okay to operate according to the instructions? Then don’t force yourself. Call the manufacturer’s customer service for help right away and state the model of your lock. No more? I can only tearfully spend money to hire a professional lock repairman to come to my place. They usually have ways to restore the factory Settings or… Violent lock removal? Hope it doesn’t come to that! This new lock cost me several hundred! It’s said that the golden one from Grandpa Wang’s house is even more expensive!