Can't You See I'm Burning, Burning?
I went to work after dropping acid this morning. Yup, that's right acid. I'm sure some of you have done that before but I doubt that any of you have dropped battery acid. Stick with me, I'll explain.
The battery in Jared's truck died last night so he asked me to give him a jump before I left for work this morning. I'm not a stupid girl, I fastened the jumper cables to their respective places and turned on my ignition. Then Jared turned over his ignition that's when we noticed smoke and lots of it. We walk to the front of the vehicles only to be met with a huge cloud of thick, black, toxic smoke and a nice size fire between both of our batteries. The cables had burst into flames. We stood there dumbfounded for a second or two. We're out in the parking lot with no fire extinguisher and no water hose in sight watching a fire burn between our two cars. I take off the jacket to my suit and offer it to Jared. (he's the man, he needs to put out the fire) In the same demeanor that Jared always has he flatly said, "No". In fact, he looked at me like I was a dumb ass because I offered my nice pretty jacket. I was almost in a panic and didn't want my new car to explode.
Jared amazes me, he's never easily excited and this morning was no exception. He began to slowly unbutton his nice shirt, whereas I would have ripped it open stripper style, to get to the undershirt that would later smother our fire. While he was taking his sweet time, I remembered that I had a towel in the back of my car. We met back up and tag-teamed that fire. Undershirt Boy and Towel Girl to the rescue. Unfortunately, at this point the fire had burned through the cables and the remnants melted and scorched my grill and bumper.
So, keeping with the trend that I began the other day, I'll leave you this:
Jumper Cables.................$20
Undershirt and towel..........$10
Learning the hard way to never use cheap
jumper cables on MY car........Priceless
