When I was a kid Dad had a white ford fiesta. When he bought it second hand it did not have a car alarm and despite parking it in the garage he decided it needed a car alarm, so he fitted one.
Having been shopping at PC World we came back to the car and in a way only technology do the disabling of the alarm on the key-fob resulted in the alarm going off. And only in the way technology can do it refused to silence itself despite numerous presses of the key-fob. Prior to this Dad had no issues with the alarm, but today Mr Alarm was overzealous and extremely loud.
On engaging in a man vs technology via a useless key-fob for a couple of minutes, it did not go unnoticed and a security guard came over to ask if everything was okay.
Only in England can someone ask you if everything is okay when clearly things are far from okay. Needless to say the situation was explained and then he was off leaving Dad and I in the sound bath of an angry alarm going consistently. Needless to say he was not the only pair of eyeballs the alarm attracted as people passed by in the carpark.
Opting to sort out the problem at home Dad told me to get in the car and off we went.
ordinarily the journey home was uneventful, but fate decided to have a giggle.
Off we set. Traffic was heavy and slow resulting in people in other cars looking to see where the alarm noise was coming from (along with pedestrians) and then the traffic lights went red. Sitting at the traffic lights waiting for them to change to green while the alarm blared at full volume had us looking straight a head trying to be normal and impossibly inconspicuous. So the journey home continued with the hope the traffic cleared.
On getting within a hundred meters of home, the alarm went off by itself.