Welp. It's always the way isn't it? You finish your work on a Friday, pumped for the weekend, only to find that when you get back into your car the battery decides it doesn't want to work anymore..
Back in June we spent a good bit of time at Albury Woolworth's car park waiting for a jump start in the rain because I left the lights on. And on the odd occasion since then, there's just been the slightest of flickers from the bulbs in the dash. But I just put that down to my 17 year old car acting like a 17 year old really and since it still started and ran, well nothing to worry about hey?
But today it grunted and groaned for a bit but refused to catch on in a completely different car park, which meant I got to take a lovely stroll to get a replacement from Repco across town. Luckily the sun was out and it was only 15 minutes away so that wasn't much of a drama. I also met a fellow Impreza owner who worked there who sorted out my battery selection in minutes. And I'm sure the new battery enjoyed me walking it back across town, checking out all the sights and sounds the Border has to offer on a Friday morning.
The good news is the new battery is in (this is why I carry a multi tool in a car - it comes in very handy when you need to change things over) and it's working fine. Bax the Subaru got a good run home and seems to be happy again.
(And it's not the first time I've had to take a battery for a bit of stroll either. Let's turn back the clock to February 2018 when my Nissan Wagon died a battery related death while parked at the Library. Back then it's replacement also enjoyed a nice little walk in the sunshine.)
'YOU IDIOT' MOMENT
At the back of work there's a car for the hotel around the corner from the studios and more often than not I walk through it to get to my car. Last week I walked past three tradies painting three of the car parking spots there green and marking them the letters E+V.
'Well that's handy!' I thought 'Now if there's an emergency, the ambulance has a dedicated parking spot!'
Yesterday I walked out to go home and saw a fairly new Subaru wagon parked in one of these spots and immediately I thought 'That's not an emergency vehicle, why's that there?' A visiting surgeon maybe?
It wasn't until I looked back and saw that it had an e-boxer engine badge that it all clicked.
EV = Electric vehicle. Not Emergency vehicle.
And this from a guy who runs a car blog on the side...
At least it gave me an amusing story to share on the show this morning..
SO NOW THE WEEKEND CAN BEGIN!
And once more we discovered there's a lot going on around the traps in our What's on Segment.
-There's the Albury Psychic and Wellbeing Expo (I wonder if anyone there new my battery was on it's last legs?)
-The Albury Swap Meet is on the showgrounds on Sunday (and I do enjoy a good swap meet!)
-There's the Dragon Boats in Wodonga
-There's a Footy Legends night at the Kinross Woolshed in Thurgoona tomorrow featuring the always entertaining Doug Hawkins (I've met him a couple of times, such a genuinely nice bloke.)
Although my plans so far include eating, sleeping and editing (64% and counting.) Here's hoping the book is finished the first round of edits this weekend!
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