So I recently upgraded my car. And I do mean upgrade. My new car has automatic everything: transmission, wipers, windows, even headlights!

I named her Sonja. It's because she is red, the model name given by the manufacturer starts with an S, and my weird brain made a connection with those two and that old Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

Sonja is a fancy bitch. She comes with an app (like almost everything these days) through which she "talks" to me and tells me things. Things like, if the fuel is low, or if the air pressure in the tyres is low.

One of the things she loves telling me is if I forgot to lock the doors. This is fair, because my old car did not have keyless entry nor remote lock, so one tends to forget...

Some time later, one fine Sunday morning, my wife was meeting a friend and so she decided to borrow the car.

A couple of minutes later, I get a message on my phone.

It's Sonja, and she is telling me that the doors aren't locked.

Now, I had two options. Option 1 is call my wife and tell her to lock the doors

But the problem with that was that I didn't think my wife would really appreciate me interrupting her socialising with her friend.

So I went with Option 2. You see, the app also allows me to start and stop the engine remotely as well as lock the car too.

A few taps on the phone and it was done. I went about my day doing my thing.

Problem was that I had kept the phone away while doing all that.

When my wife comes back, I am talking to her while absently looking at my phone to see if there were any notifications I missed.

Sure enough, there was one.

It was Sonja, saying, "An unauthorised entry was detected"

So I ask my wife, "Anything happen with the car?"

Immediately her entire body language changes. Wide-eyed, she says, "Your. Car. Is. Possessed!"

So it turns out that when she reached the parking lot, my wife was sitting inside the car chilling out on her phone as she was waiting for her friend to turn up, on account of being there early. That was about the time I got the message about the car being locked.

As I said before, Sonja is a fancy bitch. So when locked, she not only makes that locking sound, but also folds up the wing mirrors as they flash the orange lights multiple times.

Startled by that, my wife decided to get out of the car. So she opened the door.

Sonja did not like it. And she proceeded to show her displeasure via a massive sound and light show involving the headlights, the fog lights, the hazard lights and the horn.

My wife was standing there, frozen in shock for a long moment before she realised that she could stop it by pressing the button on the remote.

"I don't know why that crazy thing was howling so much when I opened the door! That too after it locked me in, in the first place!!" My wife exclaimed, concluding her story.

Naturally, I had to confess.

The look I got... ooooh boy!

Now when she takes the car, she makes certain to call me and announce "I am now locking your car!" with what I can only imagine is a dramatic pressing of the lock button.

TL ; DR: Locked my wife inside my fancy car all the way from home, causing quite a bit of excitement for her.