I know that feeling, rode a small motorcycle for four years when I got my driving license - "having to" ride in the rain can be miserable, like camping with a broken tent, or how surfers describe getting stuck between sets of waves where nature keeps pounding them on the head.

I'm about to go work on the car...what's anybody want to bet it's the idle stabilizer valve? I'm about to see it that's the start and stop problem.