You can correctly shorten that to “frunk.”
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And in scoots the hand of patriarchy, feeling confident that it could liberate the phone from the ‘other’ and hold it onto the door handle far better -more tightly perhaps or for just the right duration- granting victory and swift access.
The ‘other’ in turn wishes not to relinquish the phone and only after a moment of power struggle is the hand of patriarchy, now with a more assertive grasp, able to secure the device.
But alas, it was all for naught, ‘machine’ does not recognize its rightful master, stays even assertiv-er than the hand of patriarchy. Oh.
Edit: Correction, they are actually two different male hands.
Great. So now if I lose my phone, I’ve lost my appointment calendar, my bank info, my work email, my sexts & assorted porn, and my car!
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Two mansplainers for the price of one (hundred thousand Euro).
The key to getting in the car is the key to get into the car.
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A good trick for female bandits: Stand in parking lot by a car wiggling your phone. A mansplainer will appear, and take over the job. While he’s having no luck, because it’s not your car, blackjack him. Take his wallet and old fashioned car keys and walk around pushing the button until his car lights up.
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Alas, this is not a super oddball love story : my father once exited a store to find a woman sitting in his Mazda, trying to start the car with her key. They had the same year (and same color) Mazda - their keys would open each other’s doors but not start each other’s cars.
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Engineered by these guys. Gotta watch those live demos.
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…a brick always wants to be something
at about 58 seconds
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I think that you need to add “Tactical” in there somewhere.
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Man, that’s some existential poetry.
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Several times I have been grateful that my old style cars use a physical token as a core part of their entry system.
It’s a life-saver when the battery in the key fob blipper dies.
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We never lock ours (actually more the neighbors, we share ) either. I prefer thieves not breaking the window to discover there’s nothing of value inside the car. Someone could hotwire it to steal the car itself I guess, but that hasn’t happened in the last 10ish years. Apparently even the thieves think the car is not worth reselling.
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And if your phone runs out of battery you can’t drive or call an Uber or pay for anything because it’s all done with your phone…
It’s a life-saver when the battery in the key fob blipper dies.
IT-s also a life save when the car battery dies and you need to push start it or even to jump start it you have to open the bonnet, not to mention if you need to be towed, you still have to unlock the doors and the steering wheel, and put the transmission in neutral.
Last time happened I opened the car with the key, opened the bonnet and the hood to get a wrench, unmounted the battery, closed the car, took a bus with the battery to a nearby auto parts shop, bought a new battery, and left there the old one, took another bus to get back to the car, remounted the battery, used the key fob to stop the car alarm, turned the ignition in the key and finally started the car.
I think that with an electronic only opening system and a battery difficult to reach it could be a difficult task to do because some things are engineered without thinking of emergency situations.
“Here, let me mansplain this! Oh. Yeah. It doesn’t work. Not even for men…”
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I got a lift off a guy in an old Lada. When I got out I asked how to lock my door, and the owner said “Don’t bother”. I asked if the car had central locking, and he replied, “Yes, from Moscow.”
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Haha. My old neighbors in the 70s used to have a Lada. It had the fancy feature ‘automatic theft protection’. I.E. it would only start if you knew where to kick 
It also had ‘automatic locking’. the doors wouldn’t open half the time even though the locks could be opened with a paperclip. You had to slightly lift the doors an wiggle in a specific way to get them to open.
As a kid all cars I knew were broken in one way or another. Each trip an adventure. An elderly lady from our street had a citroën ami (I think) which would sometimes produce a load BANG, after which the motor would stop. If your speed was high enough it would auto-start on speed alone, but if it wasn’t you first had to come to a complete standstill and then re-start the motor. She happily drove it on the highway. Good thing there are emergency lanes on most highways over here. Also the traffic was a lot lighter of course in the late 70/early 80s.
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