Broke Down Car

This morning, like the previous two mornings, K decided to go to Gramps' place to check how she went with the kids. The twins started school last week, and Gramps is their caretaker, and had to ensure their safety on their journey to go to school. Gramps' own safety, however, as usual, was overlooked. Gramps said the other day that it took her two hours to get home after dropping the kids off at school, as she was lost in the many road ways. K, hearing this, decided it was best for us to check on her every morning to ensure this doesn't repeat, as her physicality is not as strong as when she was a young spring chicken.

Anyway, this morning at the time of 8.45pm after we had dropped off our own little monkeys, we headed there. By midway through, the car began producing this sound, which caught K's and my attention. As I had heard this sort of noise before, I didn't make much fuss over it. K was also on the same boat. This, however turned to be a warning for future trouble. The car came to a red light, K had lessened the accellerator and haulted for the stop. It turned out, the car had completely gone dead. We couldn't start up the engine again. It had me worried because we were in the middle of a busy road. K had tried and tried to make the engine to restart, but it was to no avail. I made the call to my big bro who lives thirty minutes away. He came immediately.

We waited and waited, in the while wondering what the bloody hell had happened to the car. K blamed it on the Toyota company as they were in this big recall mess currently. My bro came and he made calls to towing companies to see which was the cheapest and hired them to come get the sickling car. By around 10am, big bro tried to fix it by recharging the battery of K's car with adatpors. It worked when the car was able to make its usual roaring noise whenever its engines starts. Big bro rang the towing company to cancel their trip. So that was the end of that, you'd think? Then we drove to find new batteries, and the car, once again "died". It stopped but this time K had the little push in the car to get it out of the highway and onto this entrance way to shops. It was embarrassing as passer-cars drove by staring at us. The people who wanted to get in to the shops were signalled by K to navigate around us to get through. It lasted around ten minutes when this lady came to help. We pushed the car to the parking lot and had the engine fired up again by way of the adaptor. Big bro then came to see the problem and made us go home.

That was not where the adventurous morning had concluded. The car suddenly stopped again in, this time right in the heart of the busy road where many cars were beepiings us. Big bro was driving behind this time round and had it started. This stop and retart routine was done twice more after that, until we got to the Repco store. We bought a new battery and changed it there. The car began to behave normally finally. K told me she'a now afraid to drive the car after this nerve-wracking experience. I replied saying that mum's car, which was way older and more insecure by the loud noise it always made when accellerating, was alot better than this so-called new generation of cars. We got home in the end, thank goodness.

I just received a call from K just now that the car misbehaved yet again, as it stopped on her way to the mechanic. K informed me that the tow truck is coming to get her and big bro. Let's just hope that'll be the last time it'll do that.