only fools and horses

Our new car discriminates against the polyamorous.

You can't have three key fobs. You can only have two. They are connected to the car because of course it's the modern keys with an entire computer inside them. And evidently they just have two slots in the car side of the computer to hold the paired key information. I think we would not have bought this car if we had known. But it's not something we ever thought to check. It's like, we didn't check if it actually had headlights, either. After all, we had multiple key fobs for our Prius, our Leaf, and our Tesla. We just thought it would cost $300 at the locksmith to get the third fob purchased and paired. But then we discovered that no, we cannot at all! The car also only has two driver profiles (where it remembers what you're seating is), but it has a guest profile. Which suggests that you should be able to have a guest key. But apparently not!

Even without supporting polyamory, you would think that people might have adult children who were living at home and needed their own key to a car, or caregivers whom they wanted to have drive children or elders to various places, or just to have an extra key because they are flakes.

It's too late, because we've already paid and done all the paperwork, so we will just have to leave our keys hanging on a hook so that we can take one when needed, and we will have to be careful about "can't just leave the car at the train station have somebody else pick it up without a lot of planning". We also learned this restriction is common with many models of Kia, so buyer beware.

Then, on the way home from action #6, where I stood in my town center with 90 other people holding various signs, the Leaf decided that it didn't need to provide braking normally anymore. So I had to really push hard on the pedal and it was making horrible noises. I guess we need to call the shop on Monday. And hope that it drives (stops) well enough to get to the shop. There is a shop in the center of town that we often use. We thought about going there and just leaving it but in the end decided to bring the car home instead.

Our town is more liberal, so there was more positivity towards our action than in neighboring towns, but we did have a few fingers and long beeps which usually mean "no" whereas a series of short beeps means "yes".

I forgot to report on Saturday standing on the street corner holding signs. We went to another neighboring town. This is a more conservative place than our town, and apparently than some of the other places we've been recently. There was a lot of negativity. Balanced by a lot of positivity, but more negativity percentagewise than typical. One guy stopped in front of our group, rolled down his window, and screamed and screamed and screamed. He was really angry, called us child molesters. I think he's confused about who the child molesters are. Our group's policy is "no interaction" and one of the leaders was walking back and forth in front of us saying "don't react, don't react".

There were about 50 protesters. Originally this had been planned for an hour, and then it had changed to half an hour with the wind chill prediction, but in actual fact there wasn't a lot of wind and it was bright and sunny, so despite the 15° we stayed for the whole hour. Naturally I had my heated boots, and I borrowed Ken's heated gloves as well. I think I need to buy a pair for myself.

Ostensibly this was to protest Citizens Bank being a funder of ICE, but people had general "Ice Out" signs. I have begun the process of divesting myself from citizens Bank. It turns out to be quite a lengthy process to get yourself moved from one bank to another, with all the automatic payments, and I feel like I need to make sure that it actually happens to the new bank before I'm willing to shut down the old bank. One of my financial institutions failed to automatically change it, so I have to call them. And recently I noticed an outstanding check, and I need to go email the person to get them to actually cash it. It's for a square dance, and maybe she thinks she should hold on to them until closer to the time. When I'm running a square dance, I just cash checks right away, so I don't lose them. It's not like anybody's getting interest on the money these days. There are some interest-bearing accounts available, but not regular checking and even savings at regular banks. What's up with that?