My Civic History

Here is the tale of our Honda Civic.

We used to have a really nice car. A VW Golf GTI. It was actually Andrew's car, but we bought it from him when he moved to Austrailia to get married. It was so fun, so fast...oh sorry. This is the tale of the CIVIC.

Since Colin and I were both in school and not working during our 3rd year of marriage, money was tight. So with a few shed tears I said goodbye to my GTI. It paid for a semester of our school, and our beautiful old 1992 Civic.

It's first trip was a few days after we got it, when we went to Oregon. See the photo of her in her glory days? She felt so cool with that surfboard on her roof rack.



We didn't live in the safest part of PoCo at the time, and that became evident the following spring. In 6 weeks we had the following problems:
1. The car was broken into at BCIT. The stereo was stolen, and the case of CD's. $300 ICBC deductible.

2. The truck was broken into in our apartment underground. The window was smashed and a case of CD's was stolen. When will we learn our lesson?? $300 ICBC deductible.

3. This one is my favourite. I get a phone call at 7:00 am from a policeman telling me they've "recovered my vehicle". Huh??? "From where?" I ask. I didn't even know it was stolen yet! It wasn't completely bad news because maybe they wrote it off and we can get a different car!!

I remember going in to see the car and it looked just the same as it did before (except the lock was punched out). We were actually disappointed, because now we had to pay ANOTHER $300 to get it back and all we got was a new lock.

4. The car was broken into in our underground lot. COME ON PEOPLE! The only thing left in it was my insurance papers, which they stole. Identity theft. Now I don't know who I am anymore. There was no way we were going to pay ANOTHER $300 to get the lock fixed or the window seal replaced, since we were convinced it would get broken into again, so for the past 2+ years we've left nothing in it of value, and we don't lock the doors.

Lately, every time we get into the car, something breaks. It's always part of the body of the car (the latest problem being that the hatch doesn't open anymore), never the motor. But nevertheless, it is literally falling apart, so it's time to upgrade!

But first, Colin has started to fix the problems!

After working on it on Saturday, the following new problems have started:


Um, I won't talk about this one. (for some reason the photo is sideways, and can't change it). Also, the interior has changed a bit:

He was trying to fix the lock, and now it is permanently locked, and he can't get the panel back in until it can open! So everytime we get in and out of the car, we BOTH have to get out the passenger door!

Sometimes I wish we could just drive it off a cliff.