Car problems

I went to school on a Friday just like any other normal Friday. I was very very excited that it was Friday and the next day I could sleep in and have a chill Saturday but I did not know what was coming to me. I had offered a friend a ride home because she didn’t want to take the bus and who could blame her no one wants to, she always does so much for me so it was the least that I could do for her. The bell rang and we decided to talk to our friend for little but when the buses left we decided we should leave as well.

I went out to get in my car and my key would not unlock my door, I tried for a while and I started freaking out because the rest of my doors were locked as well but then I remembered that the passenger side had a lock to so I handed my friend the key and when she put it in it definitely struggled but luckily her side did unlock.

We laughed a lot at this because I had no clue why my key didn’t work, we could not figure it out. I got in the car like I normally would, I connected my phone to Bluetooth so we could listen to good music and then we were ready to leave so I put the key in the ignition and the car wouldn’t start and it wasn’t long until I noticed that I had left my car lights on all day and my battery was dead. We both laughed so hard and just made fun of how dumb I was for doing that. She said it did seem like something I would do and i agreed and we died out in laughing.

So I went inside the school and tried to find someone who had jumper cables and with my luck nobody did. So I went to the office and the nurse saved me and had some but neither of us knew how to use them. I suggested I look it up on my phone so I took my phone out of my pocket and tried to turn it on but it was dead so I could not do that and once again we burst out in laughter because my phone is never dead and then the one time I need it it is. We called a custodian and luckily he did. So we pulled her car to the front of mine thinking that my battery would be in the normal place as every other car nowadays so we popped both hoods hoping that it would only take a second but we couldn’t find my battery, we looked for 20 mins. Keep in mind that my car is a 2004. They told me to look it up but again my phone was dead. So I had my friend look it up and everyone said that it was bin the back in my trunk near my spare tire. Which I did not know I had in my trunk. We pulled her car to the back of mine and connected to jumper cable and it didn’t work the first time so I started to get worried. Still it didn’t work the second but like people say third times the charm and it worked. I was the happiest I have ever been for my car to start.

We laughed and made jokes the whole way home that night. When I got home I was definitely scared to shut my car off again because I had a feeling it would not start the next day, I had never been so nervous. Now when we pass each other in the halls she asks me if my car lights are on and we just laugh. After this experience it definitely taught me to check whether my lights are on or off. It also taught me to keep a spare battery in my trunk at all times and also always keep emergency equipment in the trunk of my car like a blanket, a flashlight, and of course jumper cables, so that if I ever need to have my car battery jumped again I have everything I would need. I thought about keeping a blanket in case I did break down on the side of the road or in a parking lot so that if it gets cold I can stay warm. I definitely learned a lot from this experience in a very good way and I can’t say that its a bad thing that it happened.

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