I got lucky with class last night. I had left #2 & #3 here at the house, and #1 came with me. The library is downstairs from my class, so he browsed the books while I attended class. In my class, the instructor spends the first few minutes going through what the assignment is for the evening, and then lets us loose at the computers to complete the assignment. Once we are finished, we can leave. I managed to get through the assignment in an amazingly short time, and was back at the house with #1 less than an hour after I had left for class. My mind was relieved that I didn’t have to leave the kids home without me for very long!
Yesterday I had called AAA to have the truck towed to the mechanic. We are fairly sure the starter is shot, and with Hubby’s promotion kicking in we can get it fixed. My intention was to have the truck towed with me following behind in the Mazda, then come back to pick up #3. The tow truck arrived, and instead of just towing it, the guy jump starts the truck and makes motions to leave. No!!! By the time he had gotten here, I didn’t have much time until I had to pick up #3, and I had no way to get home from the mechanic short of walking. With it being a good hour + walk from here, there was no way I could have gotten to #3 in time. I turned off the truck with the intention of finding some way to get it done today, and this really pissed off the driver. He tried to jump start it again despite my telling him I didn’t have time to take it to the mechanic if I had to drive it there myself, and this time he was unable to get it to start. Yippee! He had to tow it! He wasn’t happy about it, and bitched and moaned about it, but it got towed nonetheless. So now I await the verdict from the mechanic as to how much damage this will be doing to our wallet. I’m REALLY hoping this is not as expensive as the Mazda was to fix!
OK, ok, it may have been expensive to get the Mazda fixed, but now it runs like a charm!