Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2147288)

I really don't understand why people think it's such a hardship to use the card. Are y'all the wicked witch of the west, that you melt when exposed to water - when it's raining? Do you never take showers, or go to the pool? Or wash your faces or hands? Are you afraid your custom-woven virgin raw silk upholstery in your Rolls Royce will get bleached if you have to roll the window down on a sunny day, long enough to stick a card out and pull it back again?

I mean - what kind of obsessive compulsive disorder or phobia must one have, to be SO averse to using a gate card to get through a gate, in a community where the advertisement shows that there are gates, that people use cards to get through? Why in the world did you move to the Villages at all, if this is so profoundly offensive to your sensibilities that the very thought of using a gate card to get a gate open sends your mind spiraling into rage?

It's a gate. It's a card. It's not a big deal. The [religious] Space Lasers aren't going to come out of the card and steal your soul like the cameras in the microwave ovens do.

Such silliness.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2147288)

I really don't understand why people think it's such a hardship to use the card. Are y'all the wicked witch of the west, that you melt when exposed to water - when it's raining? Do you never take showers, or go to the pool? Or wash your faces or hands? Are you afraid your custom-woven virgin raw silk upholstery in your Rolls Royce will get bleached if you have to roll the window down on a sunny day, long enough to stick a card out and pull it back again?

I mean - what kind of obsessive compulsive disorder or phobia must one have, to be SO averse to using a gate card to get through a gate, in a community where the advertisement shows that there are gates, that people use cards to get through? Why in the world did you move to the Villages at all, if this is so profoundly offensive to your sensibilities that the very thought of using a gate card to get a gate open sends your mind spiraling into rage?

It's a gate. It's a card. It's not a big deal. The [religious] Space Lasers aren't going to come out of the card and steal your soul like the cameras in the microwave ovens do.

Such silliness.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2147429)

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Have you seen people drop them when reaching out the window? I have. It's a comedy of errors watching them try to pick up the card since they can't get out of their car...

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Originally Posted by Altavia (Post 2147444)

After doing that once, I put a small lanyard on the card ;-)

I loved the driver who smacked the red button with her hair brush :-)

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2147682)

I've seen some folks with a lanyard for their card. I figured that was why the card has that hole in the top near the edge. I keep mine in the back of my cell phone. The phone goes in the change shelf in the car when I'm driving that, or in the phone-holder in the golf cart when I'm driving that. So I never have to dig for it. I never go anywhere without my phone.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2147429)

I used to keep mine in my wallet. That meant I had to dig out my wallet from my back pocket every time I wanted to used it.

And people complain when they're stuck behind someone digging out their card...

Have you seen people drop them when reaching out the window? I have. It's a comedy of errors watching them try to pick up the card since they can't get out of their car...

IIRC, there was a days long thread about a "nasty" gate attendant who didn't run out and pick up someone's card who had dropped it on the ground...

But just clip it to the visor! Okay, what to I use when I'm in a different car?

You're right... Complaining that people don't want to use the card is such silliness...

Originally Posted by Garywt (Post 2147895)

You do know you can move the card from car to car or even to the golf cart. Another option is to get additional cards.

Originally Posted by Mustang428j (Post 2147874)

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2147292)

I don't have a Rolls Royce, I have a Hyundai and the seats are plastic/vinyl? When the rain comes in the seat gets slick, so when I hit the breaks I slide onto the floor. So embarrassing! 😡

Originally Posted by Garywt (Post 2147895)

You do know you can move the card from car to car or even to the golf cart. Another option is to get additional cards.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2147921)

I found it easier to get the mirror chip...

Good thing we have choices, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Garywt (Post 2148063)

Yes but the new gate readers are supposedly eliminating the cloned cards from working. Sounds like the Villages only wants the given cards to work.

Originally Posted by DARFAP (Post 2145874)

Just push the red button.

Originally Posted by MrFlorida (Post 2148115)

Pushing the red button as well as waving your gate card is easy enough, However people with the duplicate in the mirror don't have to roll down the window to do it....that's the reason people are upset.