Annoying electronics!

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My car has one of those little electronic key fob things. You press the bit with the picture of the closed padlock to lock the doors, and the bit with the picture of the open padlock to unlock the doors (once for just the driver’s door, twice or more for all the doors). If you unlock the doors but then don’t open one within a certain time, it will lock itself again. It also has a separate bit to open just the boot (the trunk), if you just want to load stuff up. It also seems to have a setting to open the windows. The problem is that I don’t know where or what this is! There is no other ‘button’ on the fob, and no window pictures. I only know about it because two or three times it has happened by accident, when the fob has pressed against something and suddenly all the windows have started to open as I walk away! Unfortunately this must have happened on Monday evening. It was dark and pouring with rain as I gathered my things together and hurried to the house, holding a handful of bits and bobs including my car key. It was also very windy – so much so that it set off the car’s motion alarm a few times and in the end I had to go out again and turn that off. Sometime in all this I must have accidentally pressed whatever it is that opens the windows, and not realised in the dark and noise of the wind, because when I went out yesterday the car was locked but all the windows were open! Luckily only a couple of inches each, but still, with the heavy rain coming horizontally in the wind, my car was pretty wet inside! Luckily there was nothing much that could be damaged, I don’t think, but the seats are all wet at the edges and some things I had left in there got soaked and have had to be toasted dry. And now of course as the water evaporates it mists up all the windows so I have to be constantly mopping them! What is the use of a feature that you can’t use when you want it, but only activates when you don’t want?? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2020.