An engineering marvel

Over the weekend, we were out in Santa Cruz doing all of the things one does in such a place [beach, heavy drinking, pu-erh, and so on]. During one of the many meals that weekend, I had to retrieve something from Rebecca's dilapidated 1997 Honda Civic. Strangely, the driver's side door refused to lock from the inside, requiring locking it using the key from the outside. This is not strange as a phenomena of broken door locks per se, but strange as an isolated incident because the 1988 Honda CRX EV we have at work exhibits the same problem. I asked Rebecca how to lock it, and she told me to hold up the door handle and lock it from the inside.

This morning, I tried that solution on our own CRX and it worked, to my complete amazement.

I find it astounding that these two cars, with 10 years of engineering development and design separating them, manage to manifest the same problem and also the same exact work-around to that problem.