My mother....a mechanic?

My weekend was pretty much boring…. It was good food, lots of sleep, movies, yoga, a bit of car trouble and my mother who turned into a mechanic!

Movies – The good ones I watched were Annapolis, Changeling, Seven Pounds (absolutely LOVED it!!), Righteous Kill and Space Chimps (very sweeeeeeeeeeet)….

The last evening, my mother and the servant (who only turns up on weekends) were getting ready to go to the temple. For some reason I thought I’ll join them and instead of letting them walk, thought I’d drive… and then as I got into the car and tried to start it, it just didn’t work at all!

Looked like a battery problem.. and what I have is one of those sealed non-maintenance type batteries and so after calling the brother to check on it, we realised it was a battery problem and called the neighbour to bring his car with the jumper kit to charge the battery.

Well, it was the first time anything ever went wrong and hey, vehicles are like that.

While that was happening, this is what my mother said once she started to panic:

First she talks to the servant lady – “LD is always lucky this way… just imagine, what if she went for a swim or something in the night and the car doesn’t start. It’s a miracle that she felt like going with us today and taking the car. That way she realised that something was wrong with the car. Otherwise she would’ve waited till tomorrow morning and that would’ve been when she’s leaving for work and that would’ve caused so much of trouble.”

Then she turns towards me and the brother – “ Aiyo.. what if it’s not a problem with the battery? What if something’s wrong with the engine? We don’t know no. What if the earlier owners figured something was wrong with the engine and did something just enough to sell it off to someone else? Aiyo, we should’ve bought that other black car. It seemed to be in such good conditions. What if it’s not only an engine problem? What if it leads to more problems later? Blah blah blah..

At this point, my bro and I had enough and we kindly told her that it’s just a battery issue and the car’s fine.. and that we don’t really need her to turn into a mechanic.
The neighbour comes, charges the battery… I take it out for a long drive and get back.

Then neighbour removed the car battery, and left it to charge all night with a battery charger and said that the battery was fine and issue was there were quite a lot of oxide built on the nodes or rather the two ends that let the charge out.. I’m really not sure what you call it…

So Mandy (car) is fine now… All I have to do is get the battery replaced into a normal one a little later.. and my mother, can be painfully dramatic at the most unexpected times and it can get very annoying.. but it’s also highly hilarious to listen to her.. until she’s proven wrong and told calmly that nothing she predicted happened..

Oh mothers I tell ya! :)

Then at night she says "LD, I wanted to talk to you... there are a few proposals.... ....."

And I got this really bad headache and had to sleep... Zzzzzzzz