Car Trouble

Momoko and Little Kat were late coming home from school yesterday. I played some computer games. Kit Kat was reading on her new Kindle. There was a furious knock at the door. That seemed strange. It was our neighbor from across the street. Her car would not start.

I told her I had some jumper cables. So I drove my car up her driveway. There was a problem. Her car was parked front side in her garage. I pulled my car up as close behind her car as possible. My extra long jumper cables reached. However the jump did not work. Her problem must not have been a bad battery.

This was troubling to my neighbor since she just brought the car in to the dealer for a lot of work. She said she spent over $1000 on the maintenance. I advised her to call the dealer and have them tow the car back to the dealership and fix the darn thing. She already paid her money. She did say that her car was an old one. But come on. It is a Volvo.

Jump Car Jump

I have been spending a lot of time a work lately and today was no exception. We had an event today and I had to park in a different lot. When I came out, I saw that there were only a few cars left in the lot. A colleague of mine had left her lights on and she needed a jump start.

There was another car that had stopped to help but she was having trouble. Neither women knew how to jump a car and they asked for my help because they couldn't find the battery and/or couldn't reach it. I have never jumped a car before and I did not feel comfortable advising her.

Meanwhile, my son had taken control of the situation. He told her where to hook up everything and when she could not reach the battery on the jumper car, he opened my hood and saw that my battery was easy to access. I did not feel comfortable with Little Kat advising when I wasn't 100% sure he was right so I told him to locate a man to help.

Of course, Little Kat was on the right track it must be in his "man" genes. We ended up using my car. I had directions on my jumper cables that said to hook the black to a battery and the other end to the engine block but the "man" put it on the other battery and it seem to work just fine.

So, I guess my question is where should it go...battery or engine block? I guess it does not matter as long as it work.