Car troubles

Sometimes habits and automatic technology features are good. They make things efficient, save on processing power.

However, sometimes habits and technology cause problems when they don’t work right in a new setting.

For example, suppose you have automatic lights on your car. That is very convenient. No need to turn them on and off. Saves time. Unless of course you switch to driving a car manual lights, you forget to turn them off, and your battery dies.

Or, suppose that gas pumps are always a certain color and on a certain side, while diesel pumps are always a different color and a different side. That makes it really easy and automatic to fill up your car with the correct fuel. Unless of course you are in a different country, are distracted from running behind and having to get your car jumped, and you forget to read the sign and grab the wrong handle. Then you fill your car up with diesel instead of petrol.

In short, we had some car troubles this weekend.

We are very grateful to our Bishop and his inspired son. Our car battery died in Belgium, very close to where stake conference (a church meeting for a large geographical area) was going to be. We called the bishop. He said that his son had told him that morning, “you should take the car jumping stuff to stake conference.” The bishop doesn’t normally have that stuff in the car with him, but he listened to his son and brought it. As a result, he was able to give us a jump!

P.s. we actually pay for breakdown insurance, but for some reason when we called they said “nope, you don’t have that insurance.” I need to get that sorted out.

UPDATE: turns out we didn’t empty the fuel tank soon enough (or maybe the mechanic messed something up when draining the fuel lines). The car worked great for 2 days. Multiple uses including two trips of 40+ miles. However, today it was idling for a minute while I was waiting to pick up Timmy from school. Then it shut off. When I tried to start it again, gas started leaking out the bottom. Niet so goed.

UPDATE PART 2: We called the breakdown insurance number. They sent a tow truck. The guy came, saw the leaking gas, crawled under the car, said a hose was disconnected, and reconnected it. Then he had me start the car. All fixed! Drove home just fine.