Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Press the 6 button longly

Isn't technology brilliant?

Sat in the car, outside my son's fencing lesson tonight listening to the footy, i failed to notice that i'd left lights on. Five mins before he came out I tried the engine only to realise the battery was dead. I had to ring the AA but didn't know where I was. But my phone has GPS so I could fire up googlemaps which pinpointed my position within some small circle of x metres. Anyway, it meant I could give my exact location to the AA woman.

Then, whilst waiting, and enjoying some quality time with my eldest, i suddenly received a text telling me yon AA man was being despatched and would be with me in 15 mins. Cool as fuck.

On the way home we noticed that the radio wanted a code. We quickly found the car manual which had said code and we stopped and worked out how to type it in using the 1-6 numbers usually used to change channels. Only we couldn't find an enter button. I consulted said manual, which it seems has been 'translated' from French. Not Japanese. "press the 6 button longly" came the instruction.

Now, I could clearly understand the French instruction, but the English translation was, if I can be allowed to say this, merde. Press the 6 button longly, I did. Voila!

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