...and also kinda worrisome. I mean, I know I can be absent-minded but I didn't think I could be fifteen years of absent-minded. I'll do my share on a car, if needed, but batteries are the one thing I've never bothered to change. (Cue CP in the background saying, they're the easiest thing to do on a car, and that's the one thing you've not done? ...I'm sure he's certain this says a lot about me.)
Still. I keep thinking that maybe I did get a new battery. I had to have. Didn't I? But I can't think of a single time of the car dying from lack of battery. I don't think I've ever even had to jump-start it. No, wait, once I did! After it sat in a parking lot in Baltimore for a week, and got snowed on, repeatedly... and when I got to it, it was after midnight and encased in two feet of snow and another inch of ice. Had to jumpstart it, but first we had to de-ice the locks and shovel out the doors, but the airport security guys were really helpful.
Okay, and one other jumpstart, when I went off on business trip and left the back door just a hair more than completely closed, and the interior light stayed on. Naturally, battery died, I got a jumpstart (again from the long-suffering airport folks) and after that... not a problem.
I'm gonna be up late pondering this one, I know it.
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Date: 12 Feb 2011 12:49 am (UTC)Still. I keep thinking that maybe I did get a new battery. I had to have. Didn't I? But I can't think of a single time of the car dying from lack of battery. I don't think I've ever even had to jump-start it. No, wait, once I did! After it sat in a parking lot in Baltimore for a week, and got snowed on, repeatedly... and when I got to it, it was after midnight and encased in two feet of snow and another inch of ice. Had to jumpstart it, but first we had to de-ice the locks and shovel out the doors, but the airport security guys were really helpful.
Okay, and one other jumpstart, when I went off on business trip and left the back door just a hair more than completely closed, and the interior light stayed on. Naturally, battery died, I got a jumpstart (again from the long-suffering airport folks) and after that... not a problem.
I'm gonna be up late pondering this one, I know it.