I have already managed to scratch both cars - mine and my parents. Pulling into the garage, thought i had plenty of space between my front left bumper and the parked car's rear right bumper. Nope. scraaaaaaaaaaaaatch. on both cars. don't care about mine, i own that car so no guilt necessary, but not so nice on my mom and dad's car. Oops.
Then today I had a mild panic when I started the car up, looked at the dashboard, and was faced with this:
There's no GAS! THERE'S NO GAS!!! PANIC!!!! I had noticed the tank was getting close to empty over the past week, and each time just thought - I better gas up soon, and then neglected to do it on account of sheer laziness. And I'll admit it - I was a little afraid of the gas station. I've forgotten how most things work and feel a bit like a fool. Even though it is full service in Richmond (you can't fill it yourself, strange by-law in our suburb) I'd still put it off. And now it was on the E line! Noooooooooooooo. I'd never experienced this before because anal retentive me in the past would never risk it getting that low. I don't even ever remember seeing this orange light go on - I'd fill it back up well before this point each time. But I fought the panic and told myself they always leave a bit of leeway so you don't get stuck, and then used my new Gas Buddy app (thanks Elaine!) to find the nearest gas station, and set off. Made it, and was relieved that I could take this picture aftewards:
All full. yay. No idea what that other light is about. Is the car telling me I have a ball in my lap? Whatever. I'll ignore that one.
Baby steps, May, baby steps. Next, I will work up the nerve to fill up outside of Richmond and self-serve. You can do it May, you used to do it all the time.
That's the 'airbag' light. I brought it into the shop several times, even brought it back to Honda and several hundred dollars later was told that they don't know what it is. They can completely take that part of the car apart and replace the airbag but that doesn't even guarantee the light will not come on, wtf?!
ReplyDeleteSo back in December it was in the papers that Honda needs to recall its vehicles due to airbag issues so I called Honda to scheduled an appointment, at the time they said because the recall just came up, they weren't given instructions on what to and told me to wait for them to send out a formal recall notice. I asked mom just before you came back and we stil haven't heard from them.
Isn't the front left bumper the driver's side (I always forget how the colonies work on which side they drive on)? I could understand if you don't know the clearance on the other side, but if it is the side you're sitting on it's inexcusible!
ReplyDeleteShut up Teddlywinks! (it was my own drivers side)
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