I Recognized it.

I bought a seven-seater car a few years ago.  It seemed perfect in every way, it was bought on-line, before it became popular. The car dealer drove it thirty miles to my home. I had to pay for the whole car first, my brother who I supported, he paid for it. So, that is how I was able to have a car and the insurance for a year. I loved my car.

Then about a year after I had it something strange happened. I had never known this to happen to any of my other cars in the past before. In fact, three things happened, all three were odd.

 All the windows came down on their own! Just like that. Another thing that happened was, the alarm, would go off, on its own while you was still sitting in the car, just like that. And the third was the weirdest, it would lock itself, just like that, at any time without warning!

I took my lovely car to my trusted family run garage, and asked them about the windows that would come down on their own. They told me, “To get it fixed it would cost, £250 for each four doors.” I didn’t have that kind of money. So, I made sure my steering wheel crook lock, that my Mum bought me many years ago, and has fitted all my cars that, it was always on.

Often when I have left someone in the car like my Mum, daughter or Hubby, I come back to find the alarms blaring with them inside. I have learned to live with the odd quirkiness of my car, when I am walking away, after I have locked it, I have found, if try to not have any movement at all on my key, then hopefully the windows will not come down as I walk away! If they do come down, then I must walk back to my car, take off the steering wheel lock and turn on the car and press the buttons for the windows to all close.

Not everyone is skilled enough to lock my car up properly, because of the individual locking of one door, the windows, that nine times out of ten will come down, if the key is moved, the alarm that sometimes goes off and the automatic locking of all its doors. I think the locking of the doors on their own, is the worst, for I have said to Paul, “Always make sure the key is in your hand at all times.” Thankfully we have never once been locked out of the car.

Round the corner from our street, something caught my eyes one day when I was driving past recently, it was a seven-seater car, a different make to mine, but the same sort of shape, with all its windows down! I recognized it straight away; he has the same problem that I have. Now I look out for it, as I drive past. Quite often as I drive past, all its windows are down.

So, I realize I am not alone with a quirky car.