Aunt Martha & Uncle Marvin Get a Fancy Car

Back in the late 1980's my Aunt Martha & Uncle Marvin got the coolest car.  It looked like a "Rich Person's" car (or at least in my teenage mind it did).  They bought a used Lincoln Town car.  I thought that this was about the neatest thing ever.  It was black and shiny just like a limo.

No joke--this thing was like the Space Shuttle.  Everything was electric: seats, windows, side mirrors AND it even had this new-fangled key less entry thing.  That was like a super cool, super spy type device.  Even though it was electric and supposed to make things easier, it didn't bank on being owned by my family.

Not too long after getting the Town car, Aunt Martha and my mom went shopping.  They decided to take the new car to go all the way to Clarksville, IN.  Back then, it was a trip that happened after the ladies had worked all day and there was no interstate super speedy driving.  They went to the mall one day and per the norm were talking and laughing all the way.  At one point Aunt Martha was showing my mom all of the buttons and my mom said "I don't know what you can see out of your side mirror, but all I see is sky!"

When the were finished shopping and came back out to the car, Aunt Martha was ready to show my mom what the new car could do.  She said "Watch this" and proceeded to hit the same button on the door where the key less entry was, saying "4-7-1-6-7, 4-7-1-6-7".  She didn't realize that there were separate numbers on the keypad for each number and continued to poke it somewhere around the middle!  Needless to say, that doesn't open the door very quickly.

This particular shopping trip has been the source of many retelling and much laughter.

 

(This is not the actual car, but this is how it looked--cool, huh?)