A Young Wife’s Tale

December was the month of the car. My Explorer needed quite a bit of work. New tires. An inspection. The brake switch was replaced. The oil changed.

I drove around for quite awhile with my driver’s side door stuck. It wouldn’t open at all. No matter what we tried. There are two advantages to your driver door being stuck shut. First, no one is going to steal your car. Or, if someone tried to steal the car, perhaps they’d fix it trying to get the door open and that would take so long you (or security) would catch them in the act! Second, you’re not going to be car jacked. Well, maybe they could get to you from the passenger side, but that’s what I told myself. Yesterday I took my Explorer to an auto repair shop. I was hoping that this would be a quick fix, but it wasn’t. They have to take the panel off of the door. Thank you Lord for my in-laws! They’re letting us borrow one of their cars until it’s fixed.

My main goal today is to get the driver’s side door on my Explorer fixed. It will not open. At all. For a few weeks it would get stuck, but if you held down the unlock button as you jiggled the handle it would open. Now, it won’t open at all. Not even if you put the actual key in the lock on the outside. The door will not open.