Well, this is just hilarious. I don't say there will not be a day that I won't ever get stranded, because **** happens. Hell a couple months back I was driving my wife's Camaro home from a full rebuild...yeah everything except the fuses....a ***** to run a TPI without power to the fuel pump.
As a father of six I have been subject to a litany of moments where I wonder how in the hell they will survive. My son started driving. I showed him everything...same as the older sister. He left his lights on, at the end of baseball practice a Call comes in...car won't start.
What do you mean? Won't start. Yeah, I hear you, turn over, not getting fuel, no spark, what? I don't know what you mean. Are you in the car? Yes. Put the phone on speaker and try to start...ok...click, click, click. Your battery is dead. How? You just bought it! Yes, I am aware of that. Are your lights on? Silence....no. What took you so long to tell me that? I walked to the front of the car to check the lights. You do know the lights require power, right? Um, yeah I guess. So if your battery is dead how did you think the lights would work? Let me rephrase, is the light switch in the on position? Yes. Well there is your problem. Turn that off. Will it start now, he asks? No, turning off the lights is not magic. Your battery is still dead. What do I do? Will you come get me? No. Well what do I do? Fix it. How? Remember the jumper cables in the kit I bought you? Yes. Use them. How?
Now mind you, he is 3.5 miles from my house. I have already left, driven past him, and parked in the lot adjacent to where he is out of his line of sight. Full on observation mode.
They are color coded red to red and black to black. Ok who do I hook it to? Ask anyone nearby for a jump. A jump? Yes, you are jumping the electricity from their non-dead battery having - actually running car to yours. Ok.
Was hard to watch and not help but he hasn't left his lights on since.
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