Spring Fling
No, this blog post is not going to be about collegiate raucous and rowdy times down at Daytona Beach during Spring Break. It is about the my Honda Civic's trunk spring for the hatch coming undone. It was the second week of school. Things were still ramping up to cruising altitude. I was exhausted and not sleeping well. On one particularly hot and humid afternoon, after picking up some groceries, my Civic's trunk would not close. It is the kind of malfunction that can be the straw that breaks the camel's back type of deal. Like, "Really, my trunk won't close?" It is not easy to come up with something to keep the trunk in place until it can get fixed. Plus, there is a trunk light that can drain the car battery if the trunk is not closed fully. I was tired and hot and thirsty and hungry. Plus, I was dressed in my work clothes. I did spot a cylindrical piece of plastic on the trunk's floor. Initially, I didn't connect that it was related to the tr