So a couple weeks ago, my roommate's girlfriend's car's battery died. After jumping it, the car would run but the battery wouldn't hold a charge because it was simply really old. So she took it in, and got the battery replaced. In doing their work on it, the mechanics had the car running for a while, and ran it out of gas. When she left the mechanic, she made it about 30 yards to a stop light, and then her car just stopped running, because she was out of gas.
Then last week, we tried to go grocery shopping. My other roommate and I got in his car, turned it on, and it wouldn't move. The front wheels were on just a bit of very slippery ice, and just spun. Despite our efforts to push the car and everything, we were unable to get it to move, even though it wasn't buried or anything, just on a tiny bit of ice.
Then yesterday, I had an important test to get to. My roommate had agreed to drive me, and we get in his car (the one previously on ice), and attempt to leave. Now, it had been rather warm many days over the past week, so we were confident the ice wouldn't be a problem anymore. However now, his car wouldn't start. He thinks it's his battery.
So today, we try to go grocery shopping again. So my first roommate, the one who's girlfriend's car was the first to have problems, tries to jump-start my other roommates car. However, as he goes to do so, he attaches the cables to his car's battery, and then as he goes to bring them to the other car, he drops them, the ends touch, and fry something in his car. We still aren't sure exactly what broke in his car, it still sort of runs but won't go forward and sometimes works in reverse... it's strange. He's going to have to take it in somewhere to get fixed, and he never got the other car jumped, so now both cars are currently unusable (thought luckily we believe a call to AAA at some point will be all we need to get the dead battery car fixed).
Please cars, just work, is that really too much to ask?
-SF
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