Tuesday, August 9, 2022

How Not to Teach Your Daughter to Drive

 1. Leave your old 2008 Honda Accord undriven for a month or so in the driveway.

 2. Drive a very short distance to the high school parking lot.

3. Spend a long time teaching her how to turn on the lights, the blinkers, the wipers, etc.

4. Do step #3 without actually turning on the engine

5. Have her finally crank on the engine to take a little drive around the parking lot only to find out the battery is now very dead.


If only I knew something about batteries, alternators, or electricity, maybe I could have seen this coming! *sigh*

(I, of course, just left the car sitting there for a day or so while I slowly extracted the old battery (well used from 2014) and replaced it with a new one in the parking lot.  It took me more trips back and forth from home because I compounded my idiocy by not bring the right wrench or any WD-40 the first time...)

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