15th of July - Happily ever after?!
// July 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // General
It was my birthday… from hell! I’m exagarating a bit but it was pretty bad none the less. I was running late as usual and knew I wasn’t going to make it out by 8:00 a.m. so I topped another hours for parking and eventually got ready and got into my car just after 9.00 a.m.
I open my car door and throw both my bags onto the passenger seat insert the keys and turn the ignition and the sound I heard went something like this - “tick tick”. Yes that was the aweful sound of a car’s battery being dead. What a nightmare. I didn’t have jumper cables, wasn’t an AA member or the only person I asked that could have helped couldn’t at the time (or didn’t 
- so sad).
My car was parked on a street with an ever so slight incline, enough to get my car moving about as fast as a snail. The street that I was parked in was a one way street 5 lanes across excluding the parking lanes on either side of the street. Morning rush hour traffic, I knew as soon as I would step out into the lane I would get hear a symphony of horns expressing their owners anger at my car blocking up a whole lane. I was able to get a decent enough gap though and so I went out into the lane with a slight push and tried to push start my car - all that did was slowed my car down almost to a stop at which point I pulled over into an empty car park again. At this point my moral was almost at a rock bottom.
The incline of the street turned into an uphill incline. I was right next to a set of traffic lights. All hope seemed lost. As I pressed my forehead against the steering wheel, clutching the steering wheels with both my hands, and looked to my left I saw light. Yes it was across 5 lanes of rush hour traffic, pedestrian crossings, and traffic lights - a down hill road by the name of Wellesley street.
While I was contemplating how embarassing it might be to get stuck between the 5 lanes or in the middle of the intersection or run someone a pedestrian over while I’m pushing my car I noticed that traffic was easing of enough for me to push my car across and over to the down hill. But I had to co-ordinate this timing with the traffic lights if I was going to make it.
After an dangerous, adventurous sprint across the 5 lanes with steering wheel in one hand and the car chassis in the other I made it across to the down hill jumped into my car while still moving and - “VRROOOM VROOOM VROOM” my car just came to life as I tried another jump start.
And me and my car lived happily ever after! 
THE END
