I stopped at the farmstand at the end of my driveway to get some veg as
I was on my way home from errands. As I was leaving this young pregger
woman with a toddler in tow comes to ask my buddy Lonnie who works there
if anyone has jumper cables. I say sure I can get some but let's check
the problem. While I am getting ready to do that a kid comes with
cables to jump the car. I go look and it is this newish Lexus big SUV
thing. So I'm thinking the nannies might not like this kid with his
clapped out old truck messing with it, so I think about it a minute and
ask the guy of the key does anything. No. It has a button start so you
have to wave the key at the car or something, in any case it wasn't
doing anything. So I think maybe the key fob is dead so I open it up
and it has a 1632 battery in it, smaller than the usual 2032 (by 4mm!).
I don't have any of those so I tell the guy let me go home (which is
right behind where we were) and see if I have any batteries, and I will
bring another battery we can swap in the vehicle to see if it will start.
So I go home (in the 05E320 to get the 05ML500 that has my tools in it)
to fetch a battery, regular size, and swap it in for the one that is in
there. The one in the vehicle has a 9/20 sticker on it and is
hotternhell. Duracell from Batteries and Bulbs, which I think used to
be Batteries Plus. Now it is like 96F out right now, but this thing I
could barely touch. So I am thinking it has kakked and the alternator
was dumping a LOT of electrons into it, and it was Not Happy. So I got
the battery in and it farred right up. Yay me.
So the girl is there with her parents who are from Nooyawk and her
toddler and they had just been to the beach and were stuck there, she
was panicked calling her husband to come fetch them, or deal with a
battery, or whatever. Anyway, I told her to go to B&B and get them to
give her a new battery, no crap about having to pay, the thing was
9months old, left mine in there and told her to bring it back when they
got it sorted. The Nooyawka dad was amazed that someone actually helped
and expected nothing, and the mama never said anything, I think she was
in overload on the whole affair. The preggo daughter was very sweet but
she has lived here for 18yr so she has acclimated to the customs.
At least today I ain't going to hell but it almost feels like it outside
right now.
Oh, and while I am there I get a text msg from Fedex saying they
couldn't deliver my dog food. So I am looking and there is no Fedex
truck anywhere around, so that was another good job by Fedex. I did
remember that when I had left a coupla hours earlier a Fedex truck
turned around on the road right in front of my driveway and I had to
wait for it, and I was thinking, why is he not dropping off my dog
food. What an organization. Time before last I think the driver stole
the dog food as it never showed up even though I got a message it had
been delivered. I called Chewy and they sent another package, which was
screwed up too until another driver went and retrieved it, supposedly
off someonenotme's porch. I wonder how much "shrinkage" there is on
these deliveries.
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