The Car Locker
Ever come across a persistent car locker? You know the type. Constantly locking the car every ten minutes just to be sure. The best invention for this type of person was power locks. You can never be too safe. Stopped at a red light? Lock! Pulling out of the parking lot? Lock, Twice!
This is also the same person who, after they park their car, will click the security lock a minimum of 5 times just to make sure their auto is locked. They'll spin around repeatedly, crane their neck and check back at vast distances away from the car to see if they can make the lights flick on and off one more final time to get that last bit of visual assurance that their vehicle is locked properly.
Even at home, they'll coast by the front window every now and then and click once more to flash the lock lights. The real confusion begins when they start doubting themselves that they may have pressed the unlock button instead and then they enter a cycle of more clicks while looking down at their worn keychain to verify that they are in fact clicking on the lock button.
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This is also the same person who, after they park their car, will click the security lock a minimum of 5 times just to make sure their auto is locked. They'll spin around repeatedly, crane their neck and check back at vast distances away from the car to see if they can make the lights flick on and off one more final time to get that last bit of visual assurance that their vehicle is locked properly.
Even at home, they'll coast by the front window every now and then and click once more to flash the lock lights. The real confusion begins when they start doubting themselves that they may have pressed the unlock button instead and then they enter a cycle of more clicks while looking down at their worn keychain to verify that they are in fact clicking on the lock button.
Thoughts? Comments?
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posted by UltimateWriter at 10:00 AM
3 Comments:
I'm totally bad about locks... we don't have power locks on the truck, but it's such a habit for me to lock my door that even when I step out to check the mail, knowing I'll be right back, I lock the darn door.
At the house I'm the same, especially if I'm alone at night... I'm always checking to make sure the doors are locked. I'd love to have one of those big planks you lay in iron brackets across the front door! Not only would it look cool, but it would be easy to see that the door was "locked" from across the room! :)
I'm bad about unplugging my hair straightener. I always check and double check before I leave the house. Sometimes I also obsess about closing the garage door. I once drove back to make sure I closed it. It's not so much an obsession with me...it's more like memory lapses.
My primary vehicle has manual locks and hand crank windows... and then there's my Harley. Not too much automation there. I remember when I first had a car with remote keyless entry. I did much of what you are describing. Fortunately, the novelty wore off. I find them and (even worse) car alarms pretty annoying now. Oh well...
~Mike
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