remote car starters

Some winters ago we had two couples over for dinner. After a long and pleasant evening they prepared to leave. One of them dialed a number on her cell phone and punched in some codes to start up her car parked outside. These remote starters had just come into service here.

To give the car engine time to warm up the interior we made small talk.

I turned to that couple and said, "We had remote start-up facilities in Pakistan in the 80s."

"We did?" a surprised Faraz asked me as others looked, while his wife Sarah smiled.

Faraz is the only friend I have who does not know how to drive a car. Nahid chauffered him in Karachi and does so here in TO. "And this remote starter also cooks and makes...."