This week, on the coldest and dampest day possible without it actually snowing, Andrea discovered it takes only about half an hour to drain her car’s battery when she sits with the engine off but the radio and apparently the seat heater on. When Elizabeth is sleeping peacefully in the car on the way somewhere, they’ll sometimes sit in the car until Elizabeth wakes up.
So Andrea phoned me at work to come help her out, and sounded pretty upset about it. She said there was no one around to ask for help, so I drove right over. When I got there and jumped the car, she was surprised that was all there was to it. Apparently, she had seen her dad push-start their cars several times growing up, and had the impression that’s what we’d have to do to get the car going! Can you see us push-starting our Saab in the parking lot of the mega-strip-mall with the baby in the car seat??