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Dead battery
Yesterday afternoon when I left the office, got into my car for the drive home, and turned the ignition key, all I got was a series of clicks. Rats! sez I and I gets out my handy-dandy cell phone and called Triple A.
Had to wait about 40 minutes, long enough to get hot under the collar in the July sun, for the nice young man to show up with his charger, But once he arrived, it took him about ten minutes to diagnose my problem and get me enough juice to start my engine, then I was on my way again.
My headlights were turned on, and though the car is supposed to and always has turned them off for me when I turn off the ignition, I suspect this time something didn’t quite work and the headlights drained my battery. My car is 11 years old. Soon it will hit puberty.
I wonder, though, don’t they have jumper cables for airplanes? According to The Daily Yonder:
Congressmen Ben Chandler (D-KY) and Norm Dicks (D-WA) were scheduled to tour the coalfields of Central Appalachia by air Saturday, to view the effects of mountain top removal coal mining. The two congressmen were to take a plane from outside Washington, D.C., to Hazard, Kentucky, where they would meet Saturday with local residents.
The trip never got in the air. Somebody left a switch on in the plane overnight, running down the aircraft’s battery. The plane wouldn’t crank up Saturday morning and Chandler and Dicks were left grounded in Washington.
Some at the rally were not surprised, and suspected that the federal Office of Surface Mining intentionally bolluxed the trip. Members of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, who helped organize a rally in Hazard that was to meet Chandler and Dicks, felt the trip could have been sabotaged. KFTC has long battled the Office of Surface Mining, the federal agency that organized the trip for the two congressmen and is charged with regulating coal mining.
“They must think we’re stupid,” said John Roark, a resident of Vicco, Kentucky.
Chandler’s Legislative Director, Jim Creevy, said that Rep. Chandler pledged to reschedule the trip, but offered no date for when this would happen.
Is there only one airplane in Washington, D.C.? Only one battery? Don’t they have chargers? No AAA for Congressmen??
Or is this excuse as lame as it seems?
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3 Comments
1. Max replies at 16th July 2008, 7:20 am :
FOOL ME AGAIN.
This fits in to the post;
There was a Class War, The Rich Won It.
Ben no more creative than that, no wonder he didn’t make it to the Governorship. Hell, they could have driven there in a couple of hours from Lexington.
Kentucky Farmers has already been fooled, and come back for more foolery. Remember Mitch McConnell cutting the buyout dollars in half. Yep, let’s keep him in office!
2. Tommy replies at 16th July 2008, 9:28 am :
Linda admits absolute terror of jumping cars. I don’t blame her, there’s a lot that could go wrong, but rather than have me help her jump her dead car from her live car, she’s elected to go get a starter kit from AutoZone that amounts to little more than another battery.
I agree that that’s a lame excuse. Is there not another chartered jet they could take?
3. sherry replies at 16th July 2008, 12:38 pm :
Well, it doesn’t seem to be about doing anything for the voter any more but about marketing:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/16/obama_data/?source=newsletter
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