On February 15th - my birthday - I was driving down to Florida on I95. Somewhere in South Carolina near Timmonsville at about 1AM, I made an ill-fated mistake. While I was at a gas station I decided to check the oil level in my Civic, and it was a little low; so I get some oil and start pouring it and this Jamaican guy comes up to me and starts talking to me about how he likes the way I drive because it keeps him awake. It was hard to understand him with his accent, and I was too busy concentrating on him and wasn't paying enough attention to the problem at hand. Anyways, I closed the hood and drove off, not realizing that I didn't put the oil cap back on.
So I'm driving down I95S while I finally realize, OH SHIT I FORGOT MY OIL CAP. I pulled over at the first exit I could find and popped the hood. There was oil everywhere and the cap was nowhere to be found. I had to plug it with something because I had a long way to go, and waiting til morning was not an option since I had an emergency to tend to down in Florida, so I used the ONLY thing I could which was a wrapped up piece of cardboard. Now I had a piece of cardboard in the hole that's supposed to have an oil cap. I can't imagine what that extra paper fiber and such has done, getting into my oil and doing who-knows-what to my bearings and every other metal-to-metal connection in the engine.
A few miles down the road, I see "Honda Way" at Timmonsville, and the big Honda factory off the side of the interstate. I figured I'd pull over and see if I could get some help. When I pulled up to the guard station at the outside of the factory, I was met by this black lady with short hair. I asked her if she could please help me acquire an oil cap, and I'd be willing to pay just about ANYTHING for the help, but she just replied that "We don't sell car parts" with a snotty attitude and told me to drive down the interstate to the nearest Exxon station. Gee... thanks. I ended up driving the next 450 miles with my ghetto cardboard oil cap and my fairly-new engine is probably almost ruined. You can't tell me that they didn't have probably thousands of oil caps in that factory. This part that costs them a few dollars could've saved me thousands, but they don't have the courtesy to go a LITTLE out of their way to help a loyal customer? And to think I would've paid anything for that cap. It's disgusting.
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