I know. Another material THING. But really. Whoever thought of making a way to get a car battery up and going again without having to hassle with a tow truck and going to a shop and getting things checked out and fixed ... hats off. A little on the distracted side the other day (imagine that) trying to get Kinsley's car seat out of the Aveo and back into the Saturn, I somehow didn't quite get the door shut. The light stayed on for however long it takes to completely drain a battery to the point of absolutely zero life. None. Nothing.
I am thankful not only for the jumper cables themselves, but for the fact that we happened to try to start the car before tomorrow evening when I am supposed to make the trip to Portland by myself. Had we not, we would have been stuck with no battery, no cables, and then likely no car for Kevin and the girls for the weekend as I would have had to take the Saturn. You see, we had no cables yesterday. We haven't had cables for years. My plan right now is to leave for Portland when Kevin gets off of work, which will likely be around 5ish and too late to start the process of buying cables, getting the car jumped, etc. Not to mention the car needed gas. Had I had to stop to get gas, chances are the battery wouldn't have been charged enough to start again. BUT ... we DID check it. So today the girls and I walked down to Freddy's and got ourselves some cables and jumped the battery. Kevin drove it down to the gas station and we followed behind him knowing that we would likely have to jump it again.
We have the cables. Tomorrow when he gets home we'll jump it again as I'm sure it will be dead after sitting all night and having only charged for about 10 minutes. Then I'll take off for Portland and hope that it charges on my way up. If not ... I'll have those trusty cables right there with me to get me going for my trip back down on Sunday.
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