Okay, so maybe I AM a little dense...

In 2000 I buy this used 1995 Escort Station Wagon, right? No owner's manual comes with it. I really like this car, except for one thing.

The radio has no tuning knob. To get a station, you have to use the SEEK function, and the SEEK function only picks up strong signals.

This would work great in a city, but out here in the wastelands, you need to be able to manually tune a radio so you can pick up far-away stations.

So, to lock into a preset, say THE MAX 93.1 FM out of Batesville, I had to wait until I was somewhere where the SEEK function would pick up the signal.

And whenever I disconnected the battery to work on the car, the presets would erase and I'd have to start all over again.

This morning, fumbling around in the dark trying to find the right preset, I accidentally hit the AMS button.

AMS is used on cassettes to search for the blank space in between songs so you don't have to listen to a crappy song to get to the next one.

But I didn't have a cassette in at the time.

The digital display came up with a message that says "TUNE."

It had the capacity to be manually tuned all along. And it only took me five years to figure this out.

And to think, I used to be a National Merit Scholar.