Dead as a Doornail…

I went to the dentist this afternoon to have my very last crown put into place. Yeah! #5 and we are done! After my appointment I went to leave and had a dead car battery. Fortunately, there was someone nearby to jump my car for me, and it’s a standard so it was easy to put it in neutral and then push it out of it’s space. On my way back to the office I stopped at Sonic to pick up something to eat, and as I backed out of my space my foot slipped off of the clutch and the car stalled. Dead. The engine wouldn’t even turn over, at all. So again, I got a jump and then stopped at the auto supply store so they could test my battery. They told me to turn the car off so they could test it and I said “no way!” I drove back to the office, and sure enough – when I turned it off I couldn’t turn it back on. So I called my Dad to ask him if later on he would come & jump start my car and then follow me to a store to get a new battery. I made it to Sears just as the closed shop. He said my battery was so dead it wouldn’t even register on their reader! Now that is dead as a doornail! But the battery has been replaced and all is well again in Honda land!