eventful afternoon...

While in Wangaratta on 16th April for my appointments to see the "Diet Lady" and the "Yes Man" we had an eventful afternoon starting in the morning eating our macca's out the front of the hospital before my appointments.
After turning the car off we sat for a little over 5 min before i realised the headlights were still on after Michael my husband used the car the night before and had left them in the on position, the car has the feature that you can leave the lights in the on position and all you need to do for them to go out is turn the car off AND open the door. Well guess what i didn't open the door (but Michael was the one who left the light's on in the first place... ill hold onto any blame i can use thankyou very much) so i opened the door then turned the lights to the off position. (no idea why i did both but i did!) I then tried to start the car just to see if it would start, and... nothing it wouldn't start. We didn't have a chance to look into it any further at the time as i had to get in to my appointments so we figured we would try again once we got out of the Dr's, not thinking there was a need to stress out just yet as it had happened a month or so before picking up our exchange student Lisa up from school, (again Michael left the lights in the on position) But the car ended up started after a 10min wait. Why we didn't think to atleast get the battery checked after that, i don't know but ill stick to my argument and blame Michael for that too *insert cheeky smile*. After finishing with the "Diet Lady" and the "Yes Man" i thought id give the car another go before we headed over to the pathology for the tests, but after thinking it would be ok and it would start again, it soon became apparent i was wrong, so Sally and i being the independent women we are with a little motor mindedness (Sally more so) had a look under the bonnet to check what we both thought of (and hoped because this was the cheaper and easiest solution) the battery and i wasn't in any road side assistance. We were confident in the end this was the problem, so we figured we would try to call a mobile battery company to get a new one brought out or if that wasn't going to work we would taxi over to super cheap auto hope they had the right one for the car, and get a couple of spanners then taxi back and fit it. So we didn't waste time as Sally had to go pick up Kait from school at 3.30pm and i had to get Lisa our German exchange student we were hosting for 5 month's, but i figured i could just let 17 year old Lisa know to walk home if i was late but we couldn't do that with Kait as she was just a 6 year old and both our husbands who are in the Army headed out bush on an Army exercise that morning for the weekend and we had no way in contacting them as phone's are a no go zone, so while i was getting my tests done i left Sally with the mobile phone to get a few quotes. The cheapest Sally got was $114 from RACV including the call out for non member and a 10-70 minute wait, so after thinking wow that sounds a little cheap for a non member but Sally did tell them that and that's what the Sally so we thought bonus and i called them back as Sally needed to check with me as it was my car. I then get told it would be at least $220 and over a 2 hour wait but in that time and for less money than that i could get my father to come from Seymour with a new battery, after a moment really considering it, we worked out there was just no way we would get back in time to get Kait from school so i was going to taxi to Super Cheap Auto.
Out of desperation just before i called the Taxi i tried the car once more and still no go but had a little more hope this time round as there seemed to be a little kick in the effort, so Sally had a thought, if she could get the leads off the terminals we could clean them a bit and see if that helped, so after being able to just simply slide the leads off the terminals (thankyou to whoever didn't put them on properly) we cleaned them with a McDonald's napkin after a wet towel from red rooster i had as an emergency in my purse, then we put it all back together and tried the car one more time. After just 2 tries it worked we got it going so off home we go 45min down the Highway, to scared to stop even for the toilet. Poor Sally with her bladder at 8 months pregnant and a baby using it as a head butting tool. We decided to go straight to Sally's so if the car didn't start again we were somewhere with another car plus Sally could not wait any longer as the baby was winning the head butting competition with her bladder. We then headed over to Super Cheap and bought a battery $100 cheaper than RACQ wanted to charge me all up. Got back to Sally's and fitted it ourselves with just enough time to get back into to the cars and go get the girls from school. Feew what a day...
Us Girls rock...

All i can say in the end was thank god payday was just the day before and i waited till after my appointments to pay the bills...