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Talented Phones

Posted on February 28, 2014 | 2 comments

Good morning Everyone!

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Some of you probably remember using phones where the receiver was attached to the main phone with a wire that kept you close to the phone when you were using it. In order to figure out the range of the cord, you needed to look at the length described on the package and then mentally decrease it by 1/3 to compensate for the way even the best phone cords tangled.

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To those of us who were slaves to the cord, the cordless phone was revolutionary! You could talk to your friends and family on a cordless phone and still move around the house! It was astonishing. The cordless phone allowed us to talk on the phone and still cook, dust, fold clothes, iron and let the dogs in and out of the house. It rocked!

Photo Credit: Me!

At our house, we always like to have the latest, greatest electronics (well, some of us do – for myself, I’m drawing the line at Blu-ray DVDs) so, of course, we have cordless phones. Our favorite type for the last two decades or so has been the AT&T Dect 6.0. It does everything you would expect a household cordless phone to do in the modern era – it has three handsets expandable to 12 (not that we’ll ever have or need a house that big!), takes messages, has an intercom feature and lets us have caller id and call waiting when we are willing to get off our wallets with the phone company and pay for them. They also have one other, non-advertised, talent – they are extremely gifted at camouflage. In fact, if the Russians ever invade the great state of Alabama, my three cordless handsets will be the last thing they will be able to find!

We have three people in the house, so you would think keeping track of a cordless phone would be easy – one phone, one person – but it’s not. Take for example, this seemingly innocent couch top.

Photo Credit: Me!

Yet, upon closer inspection (usually accompanied by a fair bit of mental censorship as we hunt for the phone while its ringing), you find the following:

Photo Credit: Me!

I believe that certain of the handsets have their favorite hiding spots. I thought this one was particularly clever the other day.

For the casual observer:

Photo Credit: Me!

For the accomplished phone set hunter:

Photo Credit: Me!

Sometimes I think the poor things just get cold, and need to warm up. When that happens, their favorite room is my daughter’s room. For example, take a look at my daughter’s sheets from the other morning:

Photo Credit: Me!

A careful search (by me, not her) revealed the following:

Photo Credit: Me!

Sometimes all three handsets have decided to hide in her room!

I also think the handsets are capable of developing their chameleon-like abilities. Handset 2 had been missing for about five days, and we thought we had searched everywhere, including in this box right beside the phone.

Photo Credit: Me!

Today, however, I happened to drop something on the floor, and reaching down to pick it up, noticed the following:

Photo Credit: Me!

I can’t wait to see what they come up with next! [I think!]

Have a great day everyone!

Nancy

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Tagged cordless telephone, daughter, humor, search, telephone

Sometimes You Can’t Help Laughing….

Posted on February 27, 2014 | 4 comments

Good morning!

We had to go to a funeral this week. Kayla has been to funerals before, but with the exception of the funerals for my grandparents, she had not been to a graveside service. I truly love my little girl’s sweet spirit – she informed me that she HAD to go to the funeral to show her support to the family members involved.

At 12, she amazes me by how alert and observant she is. After the funeral, as we were driving out of the cemetery, she looked over and saw a plot with three headstones. In the center was the name “Ferguson”; on the right, a stone with the name “Head” and on the left, a stone named “Gardner.” When she saw those, she was quiet, thinking for a minute, and then she said, “Those Ferguson people are showing off!” When we asked her why, she told us, “Not only did they bury themselves there, but they buried the head of their mansion and their gardener with them!”

Sometimes you just can’t help laughing!

Nancy
P.S. Ferguson was not, of course, the real name on the center stone; I changed it to avoid unwittingly distressing someone else.

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Tagged daughter, funeral, humor, words

Adages that Aren’t plus Other News

Posted on October 4, 2013 | 2 comments

Adage – a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth

1) Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – Not really; it just makes me sleepy.

From ClickArt Online, by Broderbund

2) Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. – If we didn’t, how on earth could we ever buy a dozen eggs at the grocery store?

3) Handsome is as handsome does. – Nope. By any standard of conduct, Pierce Brosnan, George Clooney and Sean Connery are handsome.

4) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. – Not if you’re a birder seeking to win the big year, or participating in the World Series of Birding in New Jersey!

5) Out of sight, out of mind. – Obviously, whoever made this one up never had a pressing problem to worry about.

From Print Shop Professional 2.0

6) There is no such thing as a stupid question. – Well, yes, yes there is.

7) A penny saved is a penny earned – unless you owe back taxes, then it is a penny paid to the government.

8) Practice makes perfect. – No, imperfect practice perfects imperfection

Sticks and Stones: From Clip-Art Online

9) Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. – Really? Wounds from sticks and stones heal relatively quickly but word wounds will sting for generations!

10) An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Not according to the USDA food pyramid or plate or whatever it is they are using these days.

Breaking News!

And in other news –

(Dedicated to the Jefferson Davis High School “get-by” class of 1986, working its way through to a new generation!)

The following conversation repeated verbatim from yesterday.

Mom, in response to an e-mail from a teacher: Kayla, what is this about you not having your study sheet in social studies today?

Kayla: Mom, she told us to take it home last night.

Mom: So?

Kayla: She didn’t tell us to take it back.

Mom: Kayla, it’s implied!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Nancy

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Tagged adages, daughter, eggs, homework, humor, rules, sleep

An Unexpected Detour on the Information Superhighway

Posted on June 12, 2013 | 1 comment

Good morning Everyone!

The day after Memorial Day, I spent about an hour working on a “Beginning of Summer” post. I saved several drafts of it while in the WordPress.com New Post area, but while I was trying to upload some of the pictures, I got a message that my computer was blocking out certain images. Since the message gave me the option to do so, I chose to look at everything without blocking. The computer obliged me and reloaded WordPress, but somehow in the process, all the work I had carefully saved was lost. FN.

Uh Oh!

This poses quite a mystery to me, since I can’t imagine what happened to all that information which was supposed to be safely stored on the WordPress servers.

We have digital internet, which means that information from my computer passes to the WordPress server in separate packages of information, called bits. In a perfect world, I would be the only person working with the WordPress servers, and my little packages of information would be the only ones out there traveling the information superhighway. In that case, the travel would look something like this:

One Traveler on the Information Superhighway

Since, as you already know, this world is not perfect, I am willing to bet that there is NEVER a time when only one person is using the WordPress servers, and that more often than not, the path to the WordPress servers looks like New York City traffic at rush hour, something like this.

Many Travelers on the Information Superhighway

The beauty of the digital internet and digital bits and routing hardware and software that I don’t begin to claim to understand is that, in a heavy traffic situation, the little bits of information coming from my computer (the red stars) somehow know to search for the least traveled route to WordPress, meaning that my information still gets to WordPress very quickly, even if the path to WordPress taken by my bits is longer than the original route.

My Bits Taking the Road Less Traveled By (With apologies to Robert Frost

So far so good, right? Everyone still with me? Anyone need an air horn blasted by their ear to wake back up? Here’s the problem, however – when I saved my work on WordPress, my bits started traveling from my computer to the WordPress servers, but in the interim, when I told my computer to show me everything, the bits disappeared. WHERE DID THEY GO? Where do all the bits that somehow drop out of sight end up? After careful thought, all I can offer you is a few suggestions.

Possible Detours on the Information Superhighway

Take Saskatchewan, for instance. Saskatchewan is a Canadian province directly north of the states of Montana and North Dakota, with a population of just over 1,000,000 people as of 2011. A bit from the Great State of Alabama would enjoy kicking back in the summer there for vacation, where temperatures range with highs between 75 and 82 in July, while back here at Alabama we will be somewhere between 95 and 100 with 100% humidity.

Welcome to Saskatchewan!
from http://www.clickartonline.com; Copyright protected.

Timbuktu, on the other hand, represents mystery and adventure and a bit aiming for a little excitement on vacation could do quite well kicking around there for a while.

A Bit Exploring Timbuktu; from http://www.clickartonline.com; copyright protected.

As any airline traveler in Alabama knows, Alabama bits must go through Atlanta to fly to anywhere else in the United States or the world, AND the Atlanta airport takes some skill to navigate correctly. I am positive that there are thousands of bits wandering desolately through the Atlanta airport looking for the right flight to take them on to their ultimate destination.

Atlanta Airport; Photograph released into the public domain by Nikon

A bit that is either 1) just plain lost or 2) looking for a very quiet place to relax could end up somewhere like Franklin, Georgia, population approximately 950 people, on the banks of a river with a river walk and a boat launch.

Bits that wind up in Seattle are looking for higher education at the hands of Microsoft, Cray or Amazon, among many other available tech companies in the area. Since a higher education takes years to achieve, these bits will stay off the highway long enough for it to have changed completely and for them to have forgotten their original mission.

Downtown Seattle; photograph by Daniel Schen, from Wikimedia Commons

The bits that end up in Shangri-Law, the corporate law division of the paradise known as “Shangri-La” live in a fantastic venue, but have to work hard, too. It’s not easy policing the information channels of the world to ensure that Shangri-La remains a myth and that any information that might allow world travelers to discover its real location is removed or distorted. These bits also will not be allowed to leave without a complete memory wipe, lest they deliberately or inadvertently lead others there.

Shangri-La, the location of the celebrated corporate law firm of Shangri-Law

I envy the bits in Never-Never Land – they get to play in the many computer games Peter Pan and the Lost Boys have acquired over the years (just because they don’t grow up doesn’t mean they haven’t kept up with the latest toy trends. Rumor has it that even Tinker Bell has been seen playing with her cell phone and a fashion designing app.)

The bits that end up in the South Pole are dedicated to scientific research, since that is the only reason bits or people currently travel to the South Pole. It makes me feel a little bit better to know that at least some of my earlier post was lost to ensure the advancement of humankind’s knowledge about the world we live in.

Travel Poster for Bits Enticing Them to the South Pole
from http://www.clickartonline.com, copyright protected.

If you have any stray bits wandering around out there, I’d love for you to let me know where you think they might be hiding!

Have a great day!

Nancy

FN. There is nothing, I mean NOTHING, more irritating to a writer than to completely lose a piece he or she has put time, energy and imagination into writing. It’s almost impossible to recapture the flavor of the original piece from memory.

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Tagged bits, computer, Digital internet, humor, routing, server, WordPress, working mom

Of Math and Cows

Posted on May 26, 2013 | 1 comment

Hi Everyone!

We were driving somewhere the other day, and Kayla was in an exceptionally bouyant mood.

We started the drive by giving her a surprise oral basic math facts quiz, which normally leads to tears and temper but which she cheerfully answered on this day. I threw out lots of addition and multiplication questions, all of which Kayla got correct, then I abruptly changed stream and asked: 9-5.
Kayla’s response? “Crap.” (She immediatelty followed that up with the right answer, 4.)

After a while, we also drove by a herd of cows, placidly grazing in a field. Kayla’s observation?

“If I were a cow, I’d be the meanest cow ever. You wouldn’t make bacon out of me!”

The funniest one, though, was last weekend when we were returning from a wedding in North Carolina and were looking for a fast food place to get breakfast. For years, I would get biscuits from McDonald’s but in the last few months, I have switched to a preference for cinnamon rolls from Burger King. When Mark pointed out the McDonald’s, and I suggested we keep looking, Kayla, demonstrating her ever increasing grasp of our family’s gift of gentle satire, said sorrowfully from the back seat, “Mom, I’m sorry about your relationship with McDonald’s.” It made all of us laugh.

Have a good weekend!

Nancy

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Tagged children, cows, daughter, family, humor, subtraction

You Know You’re from Alabama if:

Posted on February 28, 2013 | 8 comments

Hi Everyone!

Map of Alabama, from the Texas Public Library Collection of maps

An email encounter with someone from out West started me thinking about what it really means to be from Alabama, and so I compiled this list.

You know you’re from Alabama if:

1) Your first reaction upon meeting someone from any city with a population of over 1,000,000 people is to ask them if they know your sister’s neighbor’s daughter, Betty Sue, who moved to that city five years ago.

Lynyrd Skynyrd in Concert in 2010. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, by Andrew King.

2) The opening riffs to “Sweet Home Alabama” raise your heart beat and give you the uncontrollable urge to sing along with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

3) You think Jimmy Buffett’s rendition of “Stars Fell On Alabama” should be the state song.

4) You are surprised to find out that neither “Sweet Home Alabama” nor “Stars Fell On Alabama'” are the state song.

5) Your definition of a “mixed marriage” means that one spouse is an Auburn fan and the other is an Alabama fan.

6) You wonder why in a state with a large NASA facility in the north of the State, state of the art automotive manufacturers sprinkled across the center of the state, a state of the art steel plant and Airbus plant in the south of the state and several major universities, the national news media can only find the least educated and articulate of us to interview on television.

7) Air conditioning is a necessity, not a luxury.

8) You do not think running the heat at night and the air conditioner during the day in the spring and fall is odd.

9) You get your coat and car keys, not a tool box, when your husband tells you he is fixing to go somewhere.

10) You know perfectly well that there are three second person pronouns:

“You” – second person singular, as in “why don’t you come with me?”

“Y’all” – second person plural, as in “Why don’t y’all come over to dinner?”

“All y’all” – second person plural heightened, to be used when you are inviting large groups of people to do something instead of groups of five or less.

Picture by Torsten Bolten, on Wikimedia Commons.

11) You think that basketball and baseball are just something they do to kill time until football season rolls back again.

12) You have ever considered the date of the Iron Bowl as something to be avoided when scheduling important family functions such as weddings, births and funerals.

13) You don’t have to ask what the term “Iron Bowl” refers to.

14) You are astounded that the man who invented air conditioning does not have a national holiday named after him.

Have a great day everyone!

Nancy

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Tagged air conditioning, Alabama, Auburn, fall, football, humor, spring, y'all

Another Rule I Never Thought I’d Need!

Posted on February 16, 2013 | 5 comments

Hi Everyone!

I had hoped that by the time Kayla hit age 11, we would be evolving out of the stage where I continue to discover rules that I never thought I would need as a parent. Apparently, that is not true.

Here is the new rule:

Do not use the barbecue lighter to burn an egg shell and paper together in your bedroom, even if you were impressed with the welding demonstration at the junior college the previous day.

Sigh.

Fortunately, it was not necessary to call the fire department, and nothing in the house was harmed.

Here is the original list.

1) Do not squirt the ink out of a ballpoint pen in the bathroom and mix it with water in order to make ink “like Harry Potter uses.” (Age 10).

2) Do not lose control of the ballpoint pen and ink during the squirting process, spraying black ink all over the bathroom. (Age 10).

3) If you do spray black ink all over the bathroom, do not fail to call in reinforcements immediately. (Age 10).

4) Do not bring lady bugs, worms, crickets, roly-poly’s, moths, butterflies, lizards or any other type of insect or reptile into the house as pets. (Ages 5-10 and counting.)

5) Mom is the spider killing expert, but roaches need to be handled by Dad.

6) When your mother who is recovering from surgery tells you she has to take a nap, gives you the run of the house and the back yard with the sole restriction being do not go out the front door until she is awake, do not lock the dogs in the back yard, and play with your friends for two hours with the front door open, you on the inside side of the door and your friends on the outside side of the door. (Age 10).

7) Do not jam your elbow into a plastic hurricane glass until it gets stuck in an effort to keep the infinitesimal scratch on your elbow from getting wet in the bath and stinging. (Age 9).

8 ) Do not feed paper to the dogs as a treat. At least two of the three are dumb enough to believe you. (Age 10).

9) Soap is required for a bath to really be a bath. (Age 5).

10) Do not wash your hair with conditioner only. (Age 8 through 9).

11) It’s not a good idea to fill the bathroom sink with Dixie cups and then fill it with water. (Age 6 but she had help from a visiting 4-year-old.)

12) Do not dump the entire bottle of shampoo in the tub to use as bubble bath. (Ages 6 through 8).

13) Do not dump the entire bottle of liquid soap from the sink in the tub to use as bubble bath. (Ages 6 through 8).

14) Do not dump the entire bottle of conditioner in the tub for reasons I have yet to understand. (Ages 6 through 8).

15) Do not drag a dog into the bathtub with you. (Age 6).

16) The controls on the dashboard in the car, including the radio, are MINE! Please leave them alone. (Ages 4 to 10 and counting).

17) Do not try to pierce your ears with the end of a paper clip, even if it looks like an earring hole is there. (Age 6 and 7).

18) Do not cook eggs on the stove without a parent’s presence and permission. (About age 7: this one is harder to justify because the one time that she did cook the eggs by herself, she did a good job and remembered to turn the stove off, which is more than I do sometimes!)

19) Do not cut the screen out of its frame in the window. (Age 5).

20) Do not put anything in your ear, including rocks, without consulting an adult first. (Age 4.)

21) Do not put anything in your nose, including wooden sticks, without consulting an adult first. (Age 4)

22) Which led to: Do not put anything in any body part for any reason unless a parent says it is okay, with the exception of food or drink in your mouth.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Nancy

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Tagged daughter, humor, junior college, lighter, parenting, welding

The Only New Year’s Resolution You Will Ever Need!

Posted on January 15, 2013 | 3 comments

Good morning Everyone!

From http://www.clickartonline.com by Broderbund. Copyright protected.

Believe it or not, we are already half way through the first month of 2013! Studies show that by now, many who made New Year’s resolutions have already let them slide, and by the end of the month, most of the rest of us will follow suit. A few years ago, however, I discovered the secret to keeping a New Year’s resolution, and I thought today I’d share it with you.

A list of New Year’s resolutions – from http://www.clickartonline.com by Broderbund. Copyright protected.

Before I learned this secret, I also participated in the New Year’s resolution mania, coming up with a long list of resolutions worthy of the finest list keepers in the realm, with all of the usual suspects on it – lose weight, eat right, exercise, get organized, keep the house better, and complete every uncompleted craft project I ever laid hands on along with a few inherited ones – only to wake up somewhere around mid-January to find that I had not kept one resolution out of the fifty or so that I had made. Then, one year, lightning struck and I discovered the way off of the New Year’s treadmill.

From www.clickartonline.com by Broderbund. Copyright protected.

From http://www.clickartonline.com by Broderbund. Copyright protected.

Here it is – the one and only New Year’s resolution you will ever need. (Do you hear the fan fare in the distance? Is the suspense gathering?) Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to introduce you to THE RESOLUTION:

RESOLVE NOT TO MAKE ANY NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS!

Applause!

This lofty but eminently keepable resolution is not without its pitfalls, however.

Avoid pitfalls! From www.clickartonline.com by Broderbund. Copyright protected.

Avoid pitfalls!
From http://www.clickartonline.com by Broderbund. Copyright protected.

The worst pitfall is the peer pressure that slowly builds upon the resolver to make another New Year’s resolution, any other New Year’s resolution, as the previous year draws to a close. The pressure is at its peak the week between Christmas and New Year’s, as the media inundates you with stories about the types of resolutions to make and how to keep them and the way the life of Susie B. Smith in Smalltown, USA was changed forever to the good because SHE kept HER New Year’s resolution to open a museum dedicated to the noble history of chocolate chip cookies. (The free samples Susie B. Smith gave when you entered her museum certainly aided her success!). You start to think that maybe you could try just one little extra resolution. In spite of this pressure, stand firm. Cut the thought “Well maybe I should resolve to…” off at the knees. Think firmly “NO! Stop the insanity now! Not another year!” After a while it becomes second nature.

The second pitfall is to believe that by keeping the resolution not to make any more New Year’s resolutions you are resolving never to change. This thought adds to the pressure on you to make additional resolutions at New Year’s, since everyone wants to change for the better sometime. Simple common sense (which is usually neither simple nor common) shows the fallacy of this fear.

Instead of never changing, keeping this one resolution frees you to change whatever you want, whenever you want at any time of the year except January 1! By restricting yourself on one day out of 365 (366 in leap years), you gain 364(365) more days to make whatever changes you want. Such freedom is dizzying and empowering – if you believe you need to change something in your life, by agreeing not to package it up with the New Year’s insanity, you have freed yourself to make one small change at the time of your choosing, leading up to one huge success by June 16 or October 21 or November 2 or whatever other day you might choose.

Mind-blowing, isn’t it? So who’s with me?

From ClickArt Online, by Broderbund

Have a great day!

Nancy

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Tagged DPchallenge, housekeeping, humor, Keeping New Year's resolutions, New Year's resolutions

What’s good for the gosling…..

Posted on December 31, 2012 | 3 comments

Morning Everyone!

What’s good for the gosling is good for the goose!

Just a quick anecdote today, since I have a very busy schedule – rest, watch TV, eat lunch, nap, rest from napping, eat supper, etc…..

We got Kayla a small computer for Christmas this year – visualize one step above a netbook and one step below a true laptop – and she loves it.

I had been letting her use my netbook until it crashed a few months ago. She found the netbook frustrating because it loaded web pages a lot slower than a regular laptop does. Her Christmas computer is a vast improvement over the netbook, but still is not as fast as a full size computer. Kayla has a tendency to just keep hitting buttons when the web site isn’t doing what she wants it to do. While not unusual, this practice is a sure way to give your Internet Browser, or even your computer, a nervous breakdown. When she gets frustrated, I repeatedly remind her to hit the key once and wait to let the computer catch up with you rather than barraging it with keyboard strokes resembling a Texas-sized hail storm.

From http://www.clickart.com, by Broderbund
Copyright Protected.

This morning, I was checking my work e-mail, and tried to reply to a message. The window popped up, but my key strokes weren’t registering. I, of course, persisted in hitting keys repeatedly and at random trying to get the text to enter – until Internet Explorer crashed.

I’m glad that Kayla didn’t see it. I don’t expect I will share the story with her either!

Have a great day everyone, and very happy New Year’s Eve!

Nancy

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Tagged computer, computers, family, geese, humor, kids, parenting, patience, technology

Car Talk from Alabama

Posted on December 10, 2012 | 2 comments

Good morning, everyone!

I drive a black 2010 Hyundai Sonata that I really enjoy.

One feature in this car that impresses me is the push button start. Now, I know that push button start is not really a modern invention – many cars in the fifties and early sixties had them – but the computer chip in the “key” that tells the car that it is okay to open or start when the button is pushed is new. As long as that computer chip is about one foot from your car, all the push button features will work. The reason I enjoy push button start is – just imagine this ladies – I never, ever have to dig through my purse to find my keys. That is really cool, no matter who you are!

From www.clickartonline.com. Copyright protected. All rights reserved.

However, about three weeks ago, I came home for lunch one day, and when I got ready to leave the house, the car wouldn’t crank with the push button start, even though the lights in the car and everything else except the engine were working. I tried everything I knew to do, from using the emergency start key to charging the battery with our portable battery charger, but nothing worked. Defeated, I called the office, where one of my co-workers was gracious enough to come collect me and take me back to the office.

The plan was for Mark to check the Sonata once he got home, but before he did, while he went inside to change clothes, I tried the battery charger again. It still didn’t work. When Mark came back to the garage, he took the portable battery charger, connected it the exact same way that I had, and of course the car started right away. (For the women: Don’t you find the innate sexism of mechanical objects frustrating?)

The car ran well for a few days, but then it refused to start again while Kayla and I were running an errand. This time I took the portable battery charger, hooked it up, and the car started right away. I think the car knew that Mark was within calling distance.

When we took the car in for service the next weekend, the kind people at Parker Tire tested the battery for us while we were getting new tires from them. It was only at 200 crank amps when it should have been at 500 crank amps. I’m not terribly familiar with what a crank amp is, but since I can do basic math when I put my mind to it, I know that missing 300 of anything tends to have a negative effect on an object. I was relieved that Parker Tire replaced the battery for us, and I happily drove away, knowing that my battery troubles were finished.

Until…..

Last weekend, Mark was helping with inventory at his plant, so Kayla and I bought some Christmas decorations for the outside of our house. I asked Kayla to shut the trunk once we got everything out, but about three hours later, when we were finished, I walked into the garage to discover that the trunk remained open. Wanting to be sure that the battery was still good, I got in the car, pushed the button, and nothing happened. I was upset, of course, enough so that I made a special trip into the house to inform Kayla that I was not happy that she had forgotten to close the trunk.

I came back out into the garage, wearily hooked up the battery charger to the car yet again (really, I’m getting to be quite good at it), and tried to start it by pushing the button. Nothing happened. By now, I wasn’t just annoyed, I was exceedingly annoyed – even though the trunk had been open, a new battery shouldn’t go out like that. I made sure everything on the battery charger was working, and tried one more time before I went to call Hyundai. The car still didn’t start.

I got ready to go back inside to call Hyundai, and automatically reached for my purse. At that moment, I realized that the car was not turning on because it lacked the key. My purse, with key tucked in it, was safe in the kitchen.

Sigh.

I apologized to my daughter, got my purse, and of course the car started like a charm. Problem solved!

Have a great day!

Nancy

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Tagged car repair, daughter, family, humor, Hyundai Sonata, push button start, technology

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Talented Phones

Sometimes You Can’t Help Laughing….

Adages that Aren’t plus Other News

An Unexpected Detour on the Information Superhighway

Of Math and Cows

You Know You’re from Alabama if:

Another Rule I Never Thought I’d Need!

The Only New Year’s Resolution You Will Ever Need!

What’s good for the gosling…..

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