Happy Father’s Day and Summer Solstice! The day has been great and challenging. Rushing out my door to meet up for a Father’s Day lunch, my car stalls idling at a stop light. She refuses to turn over even though there is power happening. In the middle of a three lane road, next to the left turn only there I sit. I try a few times to get her to start back up but don’t want to flood her. My hazard lights are now busy and doing their job while I pull the handle to release the hood latch. Look at my door to make sure no one is going to drive by and take off my door or me, there sits a biker guy, to my left, stopped. I open my door and begin to exit, he then whistles in approval and I glare at him holding back my tears, walking to the front of my car and raise the hood. He then says, “You really are broken down!” I nod with a bitchy smile. He tells me he will be back with help. Great...! In the short seconds after, a nice young family pulls up besides me and asks if they can help. I do not turn them down. As the guy gets behind my car to start pushing her over to the nearest parking lot, another from the theatre rushes over and joins him. A HUGE shout out to them and the wife and kids!!!! You all helped me greatly! Safe in the nearest parking lot, both the men start doing what men do under hoods and both agree that it is not the battery, it is a spark...a spark.
The best is when I return to her after hours apart to find she really was not going to turn over and take me home, I tell my mom to sit in the drivers seat and steer into a parking spot while I, in a skirt, get behind the car putting my hands on the hot metal and push her in My dad would have been proud :)
Tonight she sits in the parking lot, tomorrow morning she will be towed to the mechanics. Oh the one who has been with me for over 15 years sit alone. She is going to be okay. Tomorrow she will get the attention she needs and provide me with more years to come. I think the mechanics should mentor me while they instruct me on how to fix her for half the cost! I so do love my Civic.
