206 Don’t do this

Last week I locked myself out of my car at the shopping center. When I called my husband he asked if I had the remote with me. “Yes,” I said, “on the key chain inside the car.”

This morning, he called me from the Lake house. He had locked himself out of the car with the motor running, but had taken the remote with him. He discovered when returning to the car, what we didn’t know: the remote doesn’t work if the motor is running. I don’t know why this “failsafe” is part of the design, but fortunately the police came and opened the car, and he is on the way home.