Anything mechanical will fail... and fail it did.

yesterday evening i attended mares committee and sub-committee meeting. i'm in the sub-committees floating around as required. we finished the meeting about 10 ish but as usual, the post-meeting chat lasted a while. it wasnt until past 11 all of us left.

stopped at petronas gas station to fill up. spent rm15 and ready to leave. as i was opening the car door to enter, the car locked itself. the locking mechanism engaged itself. my keys and mobile phone were inside. mortifying! it was already mid-night by then.

so with a puppy face, went to see the station supervisor and borrowed his motorcycle to get another set of car keys at home. good thing i was only 1 km away from home.

hence this morning i sent the car to our friendly neighbourhood workshop. guess what! i cant emulate the problem again. so they cant do anything. next i drove to the nearest honda service centre. the service manager said, its the central locking motor. i have to go to cobra to get it fixed. and where is cobra? taman tun dr ismail. so, braved thru the jam on ldp. evenhaving a smart tag didnt help. i ended up going thru the manual lane. faster. the traffic was bad up until the cable bridge and past motorola.

finally got there 10 ish. the folks at cobra were very helpful. my car was done in about 30 minutes. they adjusted the motor tension and that was it. didnt pay a single sen. and now im parked in dayabumi and shall be paying the parking fee through the nose upon exit later.

there went murphy's law. if it can break then it will break. the kereta lembu in front of central market is starting to look very tempting. c'est la vie.