Ha ha ha ha!!! OK, this was in 1999 or so. I had bought a 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix just a few months earlier.
One night I woke up in the middle of the night to someone’s car alarm going off incessantly. After several minutes I started to get pissed and got up to check it out….It was MY car’s alarm! I didn’t even know it HAD an alarm and had no clue how to shut it off. I’m punching buttons on my fob like mad, trying anything….when suddenly the car alarm on the other car in the drive way started honking and flashing!!! I almost jumped out of my skin!!!
I’m like, “Holy fucking shit it’s an alien invasion!!”
Then I realized my daughter was next to me with the fob for the other car, punching buttons, thinking that might help…it didn’t. (For the life of me I can not remember who the other car belonged to or where it came from…)
I was able to silence the other car, somehow, but ended up calling 911 because I had no freaking clue what to do (I have some idea now tho…that was my first experience with car alarms.)
At first they treated me like, “Silly empty headed woman!” and got all macho and condescending…..In the end, they simply disconnected the battery because THEY didn’t know how to shut it down either!
I walked to work the next day and figured it out from there.
That was insane. And…it was right at 4:20 a.m.