I see who the 'cranky' one is in your clan. ;-) lolol
I remember pushing the buttons my uncle's old Chrysler transmission or such,, now those were cars. big clunkers.. it'd take a lot of juice and batteries to get them to roll. :-)
When I was in the 6th or 7th grade, in the mid sixties, the parents of one of my close friends had a car with push button transmission. We thought it was the coolest thing!!