Blargh. I took a chill yesterday up north in that cutting ice cold wind. I did not dress for it. Paying for that today...
Morning all.
Looks like I missed out on some real entertainment last night in here. Dangit.
I was watching the Jack Ryan series on Amazon Prime.
Blargh. I took a chill yesterday up north in that cutting ice cold wind. I did not dress for it. Paying for that today...
Got to stand out in the rain for an hour and a half last night. My daughter decided to turn off the vehicle she was driving while waiting on a train... with the radio on, foot on the brake and fan blowing I'm sure. (This vehicle passed down from my wife and now with my daughter -- after daughter totaled her car a couple of weeks ago, has a history of chewing up batteries due to this kind of driver behavior). Luckily she wasn't too far away, but car was dead in the street at a railroad track. I could not get it jumped off my truck or off the jump box I had, and finally called AAA. Stood off to the side of the road in the rain talking to the Sheriff's officer who was kind enough to handle traffic, while AAA was in transit. Didn't seem right for me to sit in my truck out of the rain while the officer was out in the rain.
AAA was able to jump the vehicle (assuming because this battery which is on its way to going bad recovered a bit).
When my wife has done this, she has managed it in a parking lot, etc. I think the daughter hopefully learned a lesson about turning off the vehicle while in the road.
Replacing the battery today.
Good times.
I can relate....OH! I CAN relate!
Got to stand out in the rain for an hour and a half last night. My daughter decided to turn off the vehicle she was driving while waiting on a train... with the radio on, foot on the brake and fan blowing I'm sure. (This vehicle passed down from my wife and now with my daughter -- after daughter totaled her car a couple of weeks ago, has a history of chewing up batteries due to this kind of driver behavior). Luckily she wasn't too far away, but car was dead in the street at a railroad track. I could not get it jumped off my truck or off the jump box I had, and finally called AAA. Stood off to the side of the road in the rain talking to the Sheriff's officer who was kind enough to handle traffic, while AAA was in transit. Didn't seem right for me to sit in my truck out of the rain while the officer was out in the rain. (Also couldn't seem to get the transmission release which I was pushing in, to allow the vehicle to be shifted into neutral to push it out of the way).
Luckily AAA was able to jump the vehicle (assuming because this battery which is on its way to going bad recovered a bit).
When my wife has done this, she has managed it in a parking lot, etc. I think the daughter hopefully learned a lesson about turning off the vehicle while in the road.
Replacing the battery today.
Good times.
I am confident that my daughter will do something like this when she gets older. And not because she's a girl, but because she's a kid.Got to stand out in the rain for an hour and a half last night. My daughter decided to turn off the vehicle she was driving while waiting on a train... with the radio on, foot on the brake and fan blowing I'm sure. (This vehicle passed down from my wife and now with my daughter -- after daughter totaled her car a couple of weeks ago, has a history of chewing up batteries due to this kind of driver behavior). Luckily she wasn't too far away, but car was dead in the street at a railroad track. I could not get it jumped off my truck or off the jump box I had, and finally called AAA. Stood off to the side of the road in the rain talking to the Sheriff's officer who was kind enough to handle traffic, while AAA was in transit. Didn't seem right for me to sit in my truck out of the rain while the officer was out in the rain. (Also couldn't seem to get the transmission release which I was pushing in, to allow the vehicle to be shifted into neutral to push it out of the way).
Luckily AAA was able to jump the vehicle (assuming because this battery which is on its way to going bad recovered a bit).
When my wife has done this, she has managed it in a parking lot, etc. I think the daughter hopefully learned a lesson about turning off the vehicle while in the road.
Replacing the battery today.
Good times.
Female operators for the most part do not connect the dots. If the key will turn they will drive it. Period. Brakes growling, low air in the tires, warning lites on in the dash.....makes no difference to many. It took me a long time and a few psychotic episodes to get my wife and daughter to actually alert me of issues before they became real problems.
Blargh. I took a chill yesterday up north in that cutting ice cold wind. I did not dress for it. Paying for that today...
Female operators for the most part do not connect the dots. If the key will turn they will drive it. Period. Brakes growling, low air in the tires, warning lites on in the dash.....makes no difference to many. It took me a long time and a few psychotic episodes to get my wife and daughter to actually alert me of issues before they became real problems.
The exception would be my wife. If she hears, sees or perceives the slightest abnormality in a vehicles sight, sound or performance, it needs a total rebuild...
Agreed, I got into this same vehicle one time when my wife was the main driver, and it had a low tire (TPMS was barking), battery was stuttering and it was in active need of an oil change. Took care of all 3 items right then and handed it back to her for more abuse later that day. It is pretty amazing.
I try to bullet proof things as much as I can to deal with the behavior, but sometimes the abuse catches up with a machine.
Good Morning, My People..!
I am in the great city of Valpo.
I am a tick early, but catching breakfast @ Bob Evans.
Went to The Wizs home in the way up here to pick up a chair I left at the FGE
Which he so nicely packed to his home for me to pick up later.
So I stopped and found it nicely wrapped in his deck.
THANK YOU, LOSEY.!
Gonna view and coon-finger some AR pistols @ Copper Custom @ 9am.
Then hustle to Iowa.
Peace Out
...My first car was a RWD Plymouth with a V-8. First winter I decided to see how bad the roads were by flooring it. So as I was digging snow from around the car in the ditch, a nice farmer came by and pulled me out. I thought my Dad was gonna bury ME in the snow. And then there was the time I backed into my Mom's car...in our own driveway...but that's a whole nother story.