This Is A Lucky Day?

I hopped in the van this morning, turned the key, and was greeted with complete silence. Nothing happened. It didn’t whine. It didn’t sort of turnover a little bit. It didn’t look at me, roll its eyes and chuckle. The van was totally dead.

When Nadia got home we took out the cables, jumped the van and drove it to our mechanic. He quickly determined that we needed a new battery. Our current battery wasn’t really very old. But if a battery no longer works then it no longer works so, even though it wasn’t very old, we needed a new battery.

(You can tell I know a lot about mechanics from that kind of sophisticated analysis, can’t you?)

When the job was completed our mechanic walked into his waiting area and said to me, “It’s your lucky day, this is only going to cost $100!”

I laughed and said, “You and I have a different definition of what makes a lucky day.”

Then we both laughed, I paid the bill and he laughed a little bit more.

When it comes to the vehicles at our house, someone else always gets the last laugh.

Nadia's Lovely Birthday Dinner

I took Nadia out for a lovely birthday meal tonight.  It was delicious and we had a nice time together talking, laughing and tasting each other’s food.  After the meal, when we got in the car to leave, it did not start.

Dead.

The car was dead.  You know, the turn-the-key-and-nothing-happens kind of dead.

Nadia is not easily flustered.  She said, “Well, at least we’re not that far from the house.”

We had picked up a few things at a grocery store so we took the grocery bags, looked off toward the distance and began to walk home.  We even cracked a few jokes about the whole situation along the way.

I mention all of this just to point out that we’ve come to see, once again, I’m a guy who really knows how to show his wife a great time!