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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25980 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-03 00:35:59
January 03 2010 00:13 GMT
#1
If you listened to my stream on New Years Eve, you would know I've been having car trouble lately. Well, not so much lately, it's been about a year, but it's gotten worse lately. It's something in the power system, be it a bad connection draining the battery, shoddy alternator, or the battery itself being dead.

So coming back from Korea, as expected, I find the battery is dead [Bad luck but expected]. Finally I get my friend to boost it (around the 27th). It so happened that day my neighbour was out (usually her car is there) and his truck could just barely fit so the cables reached [Good luck].

Away I went New Years Eve to do some shopping. After stopping at the first store, I came back to find my car wouldn't start [Bad luck]. All I did was jiggle the connections around and play with the alarm's power connection and she started [Really good luck, I don't know how this worked haha]. After getting to the mall, shopping for a bit and returning, it was completely dead. Not even a sound if I tried to start it [Bad luck]. I fooled around with the connections for 20 minutes and realized nothing is going to happen. Not wanting to deal with it on NYE, I abandoned it and got on the train home, grabbed a six pack and started making plans for NYE (which actually turned out pretty fun).

Today I went to get it boosted and try to figure things out. Being it's still Boxing Week, the mall was completely jammed full. I guess when people parkd in a different pattern on NYE and Jan 2, because there was this little gap beside me. Just enough to fit my friends car. Literally just enough. I mean he couldn't get out once he was parked; it was crazy [Good luck]. So we boosted it, and I commented we should leave it for awhile so I don't die going to the shop. We left it for 20 minutes. Confident I'd be okay, away I went...

... until I was on the road and everything went dead [Bad luck]. It's kind of a harrowing feeling to be on the road with no power. I couldn't even put my 4-ways on to let people know I'm completely fucked, haha. It just so happened I had enough speed to roll around at the next intersection, which just so happened to be a residential street too [Crazy good luck]. And it just so happened to be about 1 kilometer from where I needed to go. So I busted out the wrench, undid my battery, locked the car, and started to treck to Canadian Tire.

Now, if you've never held your car's battery, they are fucking heavy. Heavy enough that there's a handle built into it. Heavy enough that I knew I would never be able to carry it a kilometer in -10 weather [Bad luck] without gloves. I was only about 3 minutes into my journey and dead tired (had just done the first work out of 2010 [Bad luck]), when I saw glory on the horizon. A nostradamusesque hobo had somehow chosen that spot to abandon a shopping cart [GOOD LUCK], and my friends, an abandoned shopping cart has never looked so sweet. You better believe I picked that sucker up and rolled it all the way to the shop, and rolled the new battery all the way back.

I don't know what I would have done if:
a) There wasn't that half spot my friend could fit into.
b) There wasn't that side street I had just enough momentum to roll into.
c) I hadn't run out of power close enough to the shop.
d) I didn't find that hobo's glory-cart.

Even though my car still has problems and I should feel crappy about that, I can't get over the run of luck that let me get a new battery and get home.

I definitely expect some negative karma in the future. I'm due!

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BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
January 03 2010 00:18 GMT
#2
Haha I smiled at "glory-cart".

Watch out in the future
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
January 03 2010 00:26 GMT
#3
I laughed. I cried. I learned something about myself.

A touching story from Chill.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
January 03 2010 00:27 GMT
#4
haha Chill

what a journey
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
aeroH
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1034 Posts
January 03 2010 00:29 GMT
#5
haha love the switches of bad//good luck
Fzero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1503 Posts
January 03 2010 00:33 GMT
#6
Next time something horrible happens to you, buy a lottery ticket soon after.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
disco
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Netherlands1667 Posts
January 03 2010 01:20 GMT
#7
Just read it and I gotta say man, wow... YOU STOLE A SHOPPING CART?
this game is a fucking jokie
ghostWriter
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3302 Posts
January 03 2010 01:31 GMT
#8
You should have left a tip or something in that cart.
Sullifam
nicoaldo
Profile Joined March 2009
Argentina939 Posts
January 03 2010 01:38 GMT
#9
hobo's glory-cart LOL 5/5
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5502 Posts
January 03 2010 01:59 GMT
#10
hehe fun read
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
January 03 2010 02:13 GMT
#11
Hobostradamus
HonestTea *
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
5007 Posts
January 03 2010 02:32 GMT
#12
I'm moving to LA in January, and I am horrified at the thought of owning my own car.
returns upon momentous occasions.
neobowman
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3324 Posts
January 03 2010 02:32 GMT
#13
Nice. Wish I was as lucky as you.
Render
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States249 Posts
January 03 2010 02:34 GMT
#14
This begets the question: if you continue to have car trouble, barely being saved from time to time by good-willed friends and absent-minded indigents, are you experiencing good luck, or bad? FOOD FOR THOUGHT CHILL
Rose my color is and white, pretty mouth and green my eyes.
GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
January 03 2010 02:37 GMT
#15
Strange car troubles in Calgary, I read in the new years thread mikeymoo got some flat tires on new years eve. I also got a flat tire, somehow slashed so it was not repairable and I had to shell out for some new tires a day or two before new years.

At least you had some good luck mixed in there. Yay for hobos?
twitter: @terrancem
boesthius
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States11637 Posts
January 03 2010 03:08 GMT
#16
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PangO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Chile1870 Posts
January 03 2010 03:12 GMT
#17
That thing with the alarm was really something...
5/5
In Economics, the majority is always wrong. aka: MattRz
Brett
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Australia3820 Posts
January 03 2010 03:30 GMT
#18
Good spot of luck there.
251
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1401 Posts
January 03 2010 03:44 GMT
#19
I felt like I was playing fallout 3 when I read this.
"If you can chill..........then chill."
ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
January 03 2010 04:30 GMT
#20
Dude I know how you feel. I have transmission problems and I'm scared one day my transmission will fall out while I'm driving.
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