I saw this one on another forum and just had to pass it on:
A guy gets a series of text messages from stepson, two and a half hours away at college, car won't start. He gets to yes, it has a dead battery, yes they tried to boost it but can't, he's gathering tools, booster cables, and stuff that might be needed and so on...
Finally gets there, the car door is locked so he asks for the key and unlocks it with the key by turning it in the lock since the battery is dead, electric locks don't work... stepson is dumbfounded. He did not know that a car could be unlocked that way. When he'd said they tried boosting it but couldn't it was because they couldn't get into the car to unlock it.
Pop the hood, put the booster cables on, wait five minutes, all is good.
Any other examples?
My sis had a dodge neon, we were inside it when the fuse blew for the power locks. She quickly panicked and started rolling down the windows (those were manual) I said what are you doing? She says, how the heck else are we gonna get out? I flipped the manual lock and opened my door (but I let her crawl a little out the window before I did it)