How Does The Car Know?

After Turkey day, we spent a lot of time together as a family doing shopping and exploring the area (We took a drive down the Columbia Gorge). The tradition is after Thanksgiving you have to turn on the Christmas radio station. By Saturday, Lauren realized the car was only playing Christmas music and asked Mark why. He told her that we were listening to Christmas music because "Christmas is coming, it is the next holiday!" To which Lauren replied, "How does the car know?" I figured Mark would then explain how the radio works and about radio signals, etc. Instead he says, "because I told the car." He then goes on to say, "I will have to remember to tell the car when it is your birthday so you can hear the Happy Birthday song all day." The problem now is that if Lauren remembers, I'm either going to have to buy a CD with the Happy Birthday song or we will have to not use the car that day. Good going Dad!

Notice I didn't mention telling her the truth on how the radio actually works.