Honda of Salem

One year ago this December, it’s been a year since I went to Honda of Salem for checkup for my 2011 2-door Honda Civiv and got the depressing news that it was DOA, value equivalent to what’s in it’s gas tank, which didn’t surprise me, but it did mean I needed a healthier Honda to get me home. I met John Steward over a cup of coffee in the services waiting area and struck up a conversation about life experiences that have been not pleasant but helped me become the person I was that day. No less loveful for the heart-stomping past experiences. Which is always a ‘win’ no matter how much else may have had to be left behind as the future pulls the person forward, in my opinion. If you still have a lot of love in you, you are going to be OK. Anyway, interestingly, John Steward and I had been having that conversation when I got the bad news there in the Honda of Salem Services Department’s waiting area about my terminally ill 2011 2-door Honda Civic. I needed to make a decision about what I could do to get a vehicle and John announced he was a sales associate for Honda of Salem and could show me some used cars that I might be able to afford. He did and I went home in a paid-in-full, and savings account scraping bottom, used 2016 4-door Honda that has for the past year greatly improved the quality of my life. And, I know that that very brief interaction with John Steward, Sales Associate for Honda of Salem, was pivotal in getting me headed toward a better quality of life that I’ve enjoyed over the past 12 months. Brief person-to-person interactions, even if both are strangers to one another, in the course of any given day can be viewed as fleeting, but if kindness is exchanged during one of those interactions, the quality of that interaction can be life lasting… both end up more loveful, and that lasts over time, in my opinion. Thanks John Steward! Thanks Honda of Salem! And, Happy New Year 2024! Mary Ann Dearborn