We retreated, looked about for some hidden trickster, then tried again. Within about two feet we were again warned, “Stand back from the car.” We climbed into her big grey Dodge Ram Charger and laughed all the way home at some pretentious Ford or Chevy vehicle telling us to stand back.
I was at the grocery store the other day, gathering myself together to leave. Parcels parked, seat belt fastened, I started the car. Immediately the car parked nose to nose to me flashed its lights and honked. In warning? I looked around and saw no one. I put the car in reverse. The car facing me blinked and honked again, and I could imagine it saying “Put it in reverse before you move.” I went possibly an inch backward and the car blinked and honked again. Consumed with curiosity, I put my car back in park and waited to see what that car would do next.
It blinked and honked again. To my left at the end of the row I saw a woman approaching, arm held high, keys dangling, her thumb pumping up and down. I’ll bet she had been unlocking that car from the time she walked out of the store, five hundred feet away. I drive a highly overrated, retro PT Cruiser, unlocked with a retro key. I haven’t electronically unlocked a door for several years, and that possibility did not cross my mind when the car began honking and blinking at me. Besides, who tries to unlock their car from 1/10 of a mile away.
Back at home I told Jan about the blinking honker and then flashed on that SUV years ago. “Do you remember that car in the parking lot that talked. What did it say?”
“Stand back from the car!”
We had a PT Cruiser for eleven years...absolutely loved it. When we sold/gave it to a young friend of ours it still had its original muffler system. Great little car.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80's my brother bought a used New Yorker. If the door wasn't shut tight, a female voice would say, "The door is a-jar". I think I prefer the urgent dinging of my Chevy Impala.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of car was it? Hubby has a generic-looking white car, and he sometimes starts pushing the electronic unlock button to help him distinguish HIS car from all the other similar-looking ones parked around him!
ReplyDeleteI could have done with that kind of alarm when someone came into our garden one night and stole some fuel from my vehicle, it was parked right outside our bedroom window!
ReplyDeleteI knew nothing of it until I was about 30 miles from home and the fuel pipe popped off... The car recovery man said there had been a spate of it in our area.
I drive my dear little Miss Ruby (a Pontiac Sunfire) who is 12 years old and has none of these bells and whistles. I'm okay with that.
ReplyDeleteWe were camping and a large camping behemoth was backing up. A loud voice proclaimed to all and sundry that "This vehicle is backing up!" We thought it was hilarious!
ReplyDeleteThose are some very talkative vehicles! :)
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