Mechanical Karma

Why is it that whenever I work on a car, it takes 2 to 3 times the amount of time I expect? I must have some nasty mechanical karma. Maybe I was a beater car in a prior existence and refused to start for my owner. I don't know, but geez there seems to be a pattern! :-)

Well my son's coming home from college for winter break soon. He's had his car for sale, but since we still have it, he's looking forward to using it and enjoying the subwoofer. We'd taken the subwoofer out a while back for a minor repair, so I reinstalled it today. I figured it would be about a 15 minute job. Wrong. Aside from a few miscellaneous delays - and reading through the manual to figure out which wire goes where - when it looked all ready, I turned the ignition key, fired up the stereo and went to the trunk to listen to...nothing. After spending way too much time tracing wires, I found the problem: a blown fuse in the engine compartment. Ugh! OK, so it took 2 hours instead of 15 minutes :-)