My Dead Car & the Power of Twitter

So let me get this straight.

Your car died, and your insurance guy jumped you.

To me the story isn't what happened, it's that rather than calling your insurance guy, who mind you WAS IN YOUR CONTACTS and could have arranged a service for you, you put it on twitter, hoping that a kind Iowan would come and save the day.

Well done.

Remind me never to climb Mount Everest with you :)
 
So let me get this straight.

Your car died, and your insurance guy jumped you.

To me the story isn't what happened, it's that rather than calling your insurance guy, who mind you WAS IN YOUR CONTACTS and could have arranged a service for you, you put it on twitter, hoping that a kind Iowan would come and save the day.

Well done.

Remind me never to climb Mount Everest with you :)
 
Apparently this is the age we live in.

If it were me, I would have simply approached someone face-to-face and asked if they had some jumper cables and, if so, could they spare a few minutes to give me a jump.

But that's just me.
 
So JD is the guy sitting in his car in front of Starbucks draining his battery keeping everything plugged in to embarrassed to go in because he is to cheap to buy anything.
 
Rico, I was at Starbucks, not a truck stop. I walked back in and surveyed the scene an it was mostly college aged females and I wasn't comfortable asking any of them.
 
JonDMiller said:
Rico, I was at Starbucks, not a truck stop. I walked back in and surveyed the scene an it was mostly college aged females and I wasn't comfortable asking any of them.
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College aged females have jumper cables in their cars Jon. Dads of college aged females make sure they have them, at least this one does. ;)
 
JonDMiller said:
Rico, I was at Starbucks, not a truck stop. I walked back in and surveyed the scene an it was mostly college aged females and I wasn't comfortable asking any of them.
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Nothing good can happen if he asks a coed for a jump.

Twitter was a smarter option.
 
You have to be sure the jumper cables is the right sized. I remembered pulling into convience store and parked next to a car with hood open. I saw a cocky man trying to help school teacher. I looked at the jumper cable i said thats not the right size. the man didnt listen to me and proceed to jump . i told the man it will start fire. the man still didnt listen to me the cables started smoking then cables caught fire and the man started to pull off the cables , i said dont touch the cables!!!!!. this time he listened to me and he looked at me helplessly
battery started to smoke and i told everyone step away. everyone listened to me
Few seconds after firetruck was there and they put it out the fire.
I knew why the man didn't listened to me in first place. He thought because i'm deaf and that i don't know one shet from another .Happened to me all the time.
 
This thread has ended below average for Jon D. Miller, but it's really tanked for the poor chap at State Farm who insures him.
 
So what your saying is five guys tried to jump you. So who do you think you are a Wisconsin running back??? :D
 
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