Years ago...
...when cars with electric windows in cars were still a bit rare, by Dad was borrowing one. He gave my gran a lift somewhere, with my gran in the back, and my gran wanted to know how to open the windows.

My dad told her they were voice activated - you say 'window up' and the window goes up, and 'window down' and the window goes down.

My gran said 'window down', and my dad pressed the drivers window switch, and her window rolled down. My gran was very impressed and spent the rest of the journey happily saying 'window up' and 'window down' while my dad pressed the switch.

Until we stopped for fuel, and my dad came out from paying to find my gran in tears.

'Whats the matter mum?'

'Oh I'm so sorry, I've broken your lovely new car....I've been saying 'window up' and it won't work anymore...'
(inflateable, Sat 8 Jan 2005, 11:48, Reply)