Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

We're heading off on a 5,000 mile drive in a bit over a week, and I need to get my car serviced. It's fairly minor (for now), basically the cruise control doesn't hold speed when going downhill. Please bear in mind that I live at 8600' and Alamogordo is over 4000' lower. It's something like a 6% downhill grade overall for 14 miles. So I'd set my cruise control for 45, it would drift up to 50, and hold steady.

It ain't doing that no more. It's fine going uphill or level, but won't hold going downhill. My concern is (a) I don't want to get a ticket, the whole mountain is a safety corridor, so all fines are doubled, and (b) that's one part of the cruise control -- who's to say that the problem won't spread and we won't be able to use it on the drive to Virginia and points North & West?

So I called the Toyota dealership to make an appointment to get it looked at. Turns out their service department is closed on Saturday.

*sigh*

I definitely live in a Small Town (tm) area. At least in Phoenix I could have gotten the appointment scheduled and maybe discussed it with someone.