I got a pro tip I never would have thought of: pop your hood every now and then. Let the sunshine in.

When we had the shed cleaned out, the men pointed out where mice had nested after seeing them leaping away.

All that area is open and empty now and I wondered where they’d gone off to.

Some Japanese cars use soy in the covering on their wiring. Richard told me, Oh, yeah, we had one guy who had to replace all the wiring on his new car three times–and it happened while it was parked at work.

Sounds to me like the coyote often seen trotting around that building (sighted often, even I saw it) wasn’t doing its job.

So. My car didn’t immediately respond to the accerator three times in a row between here and the pharmacy but was fine after that. The garage said intermittent problems are the hardest to track down but come on over and we’ll see what codes come up.

The codes were fine.

The mouse nest in the engine compartment that they cleaned out, judging by the look on the guy’s face as he returned my keys, not so much.

We’ve had that car 17 years and we’ve never had that happen before. I can just picture them skittering out across his garage floor, and close to closing time at that when their doors were about to come down and seal them inside their shop. Unless they tracked down every one and succeeded at getting them out. Not that they said that out loud.

I am SO sorry! I said, horrified.

Oh, said the woman at the counter, trying to be nice, we see a lot of that.

Yes, but…!!