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It's pouring rain here and as I sip a nice can of Steam Whistle I can't help but chuckle at the sequence of events that led to me being a bit cold and damp this evening.
My wife was working "lot surveillance" tonight, which involves her sitting in her truck for hours observing. She's not a car person, just like she isn't a technology person, she's quite comfortable in relying on me in that regard, which of course has its detractors/caveats.
I get a phone call around 10:30PM that the truck won't start. I'm thinking that she maybe isn't hitting the pedal hard enough, she's emphatic that this is not the issue. I tease her a tad, tell her that she's broken it, grab my 20ft jumper cables and drive to her work.
I get there, she puts down her window, hits the start button and it's clear the battery is pretty dead. It's also absolutely pouring rain, so I sit and wait a bit until it at least backs off a tad. Jumper cables in hand, I boost the truck with the Jeep. I ask her what she was doing, just listening to the radio?
Her response: I had it on.
I query: you mean you had it on Aux
Her: no, I had it on, because the windows fog up, so I can run the fan
Me, horrified: wait, what, you are sitting here running the fan with the engine off?
Her, oblivious: Yes, of course, the windows fog up, so I need it
Me: Honey, you can't run the fan for hours with the truck off, you'll kill the battery, as you've just demonstrated
Her: Well, I've done it before
Me: You've been lucky, you can't do that!
Her, embarrassed: OK, well, I know now
A learning experience for her of course, but this knowledge that we often take for granted, on things to do and not to do with cars, when it's this close to home it does make one take pause.
My wife was working "lot surveillance" tonight, which involves her sitting in her truck for hours observing. She's not a car person, just like she isn't a technology person, she's quite comfortable in relying on me in that regard, which of course has its detractors/caveats.
I get a phone call around 10:30PM that the truck won't start. I'm thinking that she maybe isn't hitting the pedal hard enough, she's emphatic that this is not the issue. I tease her a tad, tell her that she's broken it, grab my 20ft jumper cables and drive to her work.
I get there, she puts down her window, hits the start button and it's clear the battery is pretty dead. It's also absolutely pouring rain, so I sit and wait a bit until it at least backs off a tad. Jumper cables in hand, I boost the truck with the Jeep. I ask her what she was doing, just listening to the radio?
Her response: I had it on.
I query: you mean you had it on Aux
Her: no, I had it on, because the windows fog up, so I can run the fan
Me, horrified: wait, what, you are sitting here running the fan with the engine off?
Her, oblivious: Yes, of course, the windows fog up, so I need it
Me: Honey, you can't run the fan for hours with the truck off, you'll kill the battery, as you've just demonstrated
Her: Well, I've done it before
Me: You've been lucky, you can't do that!
Her, embarrassed: OK, well, I know now
A learning experience for her of course, but this knowledge that we often take for granted, on things to do and not to do with cars, when it's this close to home it does make one take pause.