Morning Adventures

[ladysprite]

This is my first winter with my new car - I bought it in March of last year - so I still have some learning to do. For instance, today I learned that it likes this super-cold weather about as much as I do.

My morning was going so smoothly. Lunch packed last night, enough time to eat breakfast, a thermos of tea ready and waiting, and my work shoes packed in a bag so I could change out of my boots when I got to the office. And I toddled out over the ice that never quite melts in our driveway, stashed my bags in the passenger seat of my car, climbed in, turned the key in the ignition.... and my poor sad car coughed and sputtered and did the vehicular equivalent of pulling the blankets over his head and muttering a semi-comprehensible 'five more minutes, mom....' And refused to actually start.

We have another car. Unfortunately, since umbran takes the T to work, said car is still buried in about 4 feet of snow. Because he is an angel, umbran quickly got dressed (did I mention this was all somewhere around 7am, well before he needs to leave for work?) and tried to dig his car out enough to either drive or, barring that, at least open the hood to jumpstart my car.

Of course, while we could get the snow *off* the car, we couldn't get rid of the drifts *under* the car in anything like a timely fashion. So I wasn't driving Little Red to work. But we got her opened, got the jumper cables.... and they were about a foot too short to reach to my car.

So we tried to get my car in neutral and kind of push it closer. Except... did I mention the ice rink that is our driveway? Kind of hard to get the traction necessary to shove around a mid-size sedan on that.

Eventually our amazing neighbors came to my rescue, with the loan of a pair of slightly longer jumper cables, and I got out the door about two minutes after I was actually supposed to be at work. Thankfully, my car stayed functional for the entire commute, and I was only about half an hour late. And I have the jumper cables in my back seat in case I need them for the ride home.

Still, I think this counts as proof that this winter is officially Too Much.....

Comments

[mermaidlady]

new_man's car decided to die in Davis Square the other day and he discovered that his jumper cables were also too short. In his case it was AAA that was awesome and showed up in a quarter of the time they estimated.

I'm just done with this winter.

[darkoni]

*hugs* Sounds like the morning was an adventure. I'm glad it worked out.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Thank heaven for good neighbors, but yes - winter has had *more* than enough time to play, time to go back to bed.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Hope this was an aberration and your car will be OK now.