I looked out and saw my mother's old Chevrolet parked far below in the lot. Curious, I pressed the green button on her car's automatic starter to test how far I could be from the vehicle before it would activate. I was interested in the distance and how effective the remote starter might be.

"I could see my mother’s beater Chevy way down below in the parking lot and I pushed the green button on her automatic starter to see how far away I could be from something to make it come to life. Nothing happened, no lights came on." This shows a moment of experimentation or perhaps disappointment, highlighting an ordinary yet intimate detail in the narrator's perspective about her mother’s car.