Halfway down the country, at 7.30 in the morning (having been on the road since 5.30) the key stopped turning in the ignition. We have an old (‘06) Honda Civic, and the AA man blamed the age. He was able to force the key round, doing much the same thing I’d been doing, only more effectively, and we drove on, to repeat the same rigmarole the next time it was started. The AA had been free (it turned out the car had cover from being serviced at a Honda dealership), but a locksmith wasn’t going to be. Thus I ran to screwfix and bought a screwdriver and removed the plastics in a slightly wet carpark in Bedford: but I couldn’t get the last screw to get the antenna off the barrel, and anyhow it wasn’t coming without more tools. Thus after fighting for long enough it turned, and the car was driven down to London and put in the garage; and we went off on holiday.
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