The rest of the battery story.

So I leave my car overnight at a gas station. The next morning I call my dad up and lucky for me he is able to shift a meeting and help out a son in need. We have my car towed to my parents' house. My dad loans me his car to use for a day or two while I have my alternator fixed. At this point everything seems fine. Things fall into place regarding the alternator and by the time I am off of work it is replaced.

The next day I put Emma in the car. My dad's car. It is making a really strange hum. I put my stuff in, sit down, turn the key, and.....NOTHING. Not a single click, hum, or buzz, and definitely not the roar of an engine. His car is D-E-A-D dead. At this point I am talking to myself. "You gotta be kidding me? What is going on here? This can't be happening." SMACK!!! That was me slapping myself to make sure I am awake. I check to make sure that I turned the lights off after returning home last night. They were turned off. I grab Emma and go back inside. I going over the people I need to call to notify that I am going to be late. I need to call my dad and tell him that I some how managed to drain his battery and offer to buy him a new one. I need to call my work and tell them that I won't be able to make it in until Shanna gets home. I need to call Shanna and tell her to come straight home because I can't meet her at work.

Turns out I need to remember to put the phone on the charger. I picked up the phone and dialed and the stupid thing just laughed at me. In actuality it beeped at me but at this point I couldn't tell the difference. I pretty much lost it. I made some sort of weird huffing elephant sounding noise and shoved the phone back on the charger. I ran upstairs and headed to the corner of the room in which if I stand on one foot just right with my one hand on my head and my butt hanging out a window I can get a single elusive bar of reception with my cell phone.

First I call my dad and let him know that I have killed his car. He laughs and reminds me that he and Harv had been working on the car window and had drained the battery operating it. When he went to charge the battery he couldn't because he couldn't find the charger. Of course he couldn't because I had it >:~(

In the end everything worked out ok but it was a long day. My parents even brought my car back in an attempt to trade cars but I had their key with me at work so they had to go back home in my car. I guess I learned that you should keep your phone charged and that the battery light doesn't actually mean battery. It means electrical system and when it comes on you really should look into it. Maybe someday I will be a car guy. Til then I will just have stories that aren't fun to live through but are good for a laugh when you post on the internet.