Now, the Camry had a remote for locking and unlocking the doors. And, I kept it on my key chain. If I hit the lock button on the remote, all of the doors would lock. And if I hit the unlock button, all of the doors would unlock. But, if no doors were opened after 15 seconds, all of the doors would lock again.
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be a problem. But, I would often go out to the car only to find that all of the doors were locked. Now, I never knew if I had bumped the button while the keys were in my pocket or if the car had just decided to lock the doors. But, now I will never know.
One time, my previous Honda decided to lock the doors after I got out. The keys were still in the car and the engine was running. I got out to open the garage door. It had to be opened manually. I heard a click and saw the doors had locked. I had another set in the house, however, my house key was with the car keys inside the car. I was fortunate that my neighbor, the police chief had just come home for lunch. I told him what happened and he called one of his officers to open the door for me. The car would do things like that. I named it Christine.