Irritating stuff happening here. Small you might say, but annoying all the same.
For one thing, when I wanted to start the car Tuesday afternoon, it made a brrrrr sound, like a car makes when the battery is weak, but the car did start so I went to Western Auto in town. John, the employee who works in the repair bay, stuck a meter on the battery and the reading was "Replace battery." My gut instinct was to go up to the dealership and get a new battery, but no, I let John do it. (Always follow your gut instinct.)


The store didn't have the right kind of battery on hand. The Honda Civic requires an oblong kind of battery, so John called an auto parts place 25 miles away and they said they'd deliver it that evening. At 4:30 pm he called and said come right now, so he could put the new one in. The job was soon done, but taking out the battery caused the Honda to freak out.

I didn't know and apparently neither did John, that there is a memory saver thingy that can be plugged into the cigarette lighter to keep your car from losing it's mind when the battery's changed, so I drove off with the clock and radio showing CODE, the buglar alarm was screwed up, and dashboard lights were acting up. It did something to the electrical system maybe? I read over the owner's manual booklet and found a code to punch in to reset everything, but it didn't work.
(I was afraid if the electrical stuff was messed up, a fire could start--in the 60's my husband bought a brand new Chevy Impala, and it caught fire under the hood and burned up with only a few miles on it, due to some electrical fault.)

So going forward>> at 7am the next morning I was at the Honda dealership in Hattiesburg 40 miles away,where it took two technicians to finally get it all working again. Great relief.
Ooooh, how I wish I had a man to take care of stuff like that, but no, if it gets done little ole me is gonna have to do it.

susil