After enjoying murni for 1.5 hours, Qian and I returned to my car to find out... that I left my car lights on. Yea. And when I tried to open my car, the faulty remote control wouldn't work. So, I literally stood there and watched my car die on me. yea.. and when it finally died, I opened the door manually, inserted the key, and prayed that the car would start.
It did not.
On the other hand, the remote decided to work. -.- So, I started calling everyone on my phonebook.
Started with
Aaron: He stays too far
Arthur: Don't have the cable
Chien Lung: He's in TTDI
Mei Shan: Don't have the cable
Ivan Chai: Don't have the cable
Jeremy: Down with Pneumonia
Zhuo Li: Don't have the cable
Zhe Kai: Don't have the cable
Khai Yii: Will only come if no one turns up
Samuel: Down with fever
Shern Yang: Don't have the cable, car and license
Note how it was done alphabetically if you include their surnames? haha. Yup. Well, not really, I called one of them first. but that's not the point. The point is that there was only one number that I did not consider: Issac's. Cause well, he's my sister's friend, not mine. Ironically, who should pass by when we ran out of options? Why, Issac of course! and he has the cable!
But.. my car was parked facing the longkang with cars at both sides. So it was impossible for his car to come and jump start mine. Just when all hopes were gone, he noticed something: the sticker on the car to the right says DUMC, his church! haha! then he went and asked who's car it is. I went along but couldn't recognise any of them. So we concluded that it must be someone else's car. After like 10 mins, he suddenly realised it's his friend's. The car belongs to the girl I said it wasn't. it's complicated.
So weee~ Her friends jump started my car while Issac went to repark his cause his car was really out. Thank God the church youths were eating in murni!
A dummies guide to jump starting a car
1. Get a car
2. Get a cable
3. Pop the bonnet of both cars
4. Put the stick thingy to hold the cover
5. Connect both terminals of both batteries to each other.
(You don't have to know which is positive or negetive. Just put the metal to metal and the one covered with rubber to the one covered with rubber. But remove the rubber la of course)
6. Start the engine of the normal car
7. Start the engine of the poor car
8. In parking mode, keep pressing the accelerator of the poor car until a smooth sound is heard
9. Disconnect both cars
10. Poor car should make it journey home immediately
Precautions:
1. Run away if sparks occur
2. Engine is hot. DO NOT touch
3. Cover of bonet is hot
4. Do not turn on the lights for a minute or two
5. Do not turn on the radio or air-conditioner
6. Do not turn off the engine until safely home
I hope that none of you will need this though. By the way, people, we've just entered the 7th month on the lunar calender. Funny how my remote control don't obey me until the battery died out? Or how it's working perfectly fine now? Or how my battery ran out only after 1.5 hours when the battery is barely a year old? Or how the peacock feathers in my car fell down and stood up in the back seat in a way that makes it look like hair? Happy Ghost Festival.
Get well soon.
Doubt if you read this though
Doubt if you read this though
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