Thomas needed to be at school yesterday at 12:45 to ride the bus for an away swim meet. I told him he could just take my CRV since I didn't plan to go anywhere. He came back in about ten minutes later and said it wouldn't start. I immediately assumed user error and grabbed the keys to test it myself. I hopped in, pushed the button, and got nothing but "click, click, click." The battery was definitely dead. Thomas was annoyed by my efforts and needed to get to school, so he just took the 2001 Honda Civic that he normally drives. I knew we would get a battery sometime this weekend. All will be well.
Not so fast folks! Fast forward to about two hours later. Andrew has gone to run some errands and the phone rings. It was Andrew telling me that I'm not going to believe what has happened (as an aside, this annoys me...just get to the point of the call). Andrew had pulled into the car wash. When it finished, he went to start the car, and nothing happened. I assumed there was user error (year, I'm lovely like that), and asked if was sure the car was in park and if had done everything correctly. He put me on speaker so I could hear the "click, click, click" that was very similar to what I had heard earlier. At that point I mentioned there was literally nothing I could do, as the only car that was home with me wasn't running either. He decided to call AAA, but in the meantime the police office who was waiting behind him to wash the squad car approached and offered to jump the batter.
Thankfully, Andrew had already finished his errands and was able to get his battery replaced. Today, he and replaced my battery. And we knew Thomas's car would be good because we just replaced that battery last month!
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