Satellite radio does not penetrate the dense rain forest on Cortes very well. Couple that with hills and valleys and you get a big dose of SiriusXM bupkis in most places. When on the ferry I have a strong signal and relish it. Have you figured out the connection between this paragraph and its predecessor? On our way back I listened to the playoff game between the Cardinals and the Brewers while admiring the beauty around us. Battery and soon thereafter spirit both drained. Everyone was patient, but I still felt they'd keel haul me if they could.
The crew has a portable jump start system. Two helpful mariners sprang to my rescue.
"Have you ever seen anything like this?" crewman # 1 to crewman # 2.
"No, never." Turning to me, crewman # 2 says in a British* accent, "This isn't a hybrid or something else stupid is it?" Stupid?
Never having had a moment's trouble with the battery, I was stunned to learn that, according to Crewman 2 my battery, "... is in there somewhere, under all this shit... probably." Crewman 1 and I spied a plus sign next to the fuse box, and with some trepidation ("Why else would it be there?") attached the proper cable and grounded the other. It started right up. Once home, I let the vehicle idle for a while to recharge the battery, if in fact there is one. It seemed to recover, but the whole time the car was running I was expecting someone to knock on the door to remind me that British Columbia is an idle-free zone.
Later that evening a friend of a friend told me he had locked his keys in his car on the boat. They retrieved them by using a hacksaw to gain access through a rear window.
Oh yeah, the Cardinals won the game.
*I told you, they are everywhere. Everywhere.
1 comment:
Loved the picture .. and the title of the blog.
Because of vacation, I disengaged from baseball. Yesterday, I realized I didn't know who was going to be playing in the world series! Tsk, tsk.
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