Car, necessary evil

I have a simply life, a repetitive life.  When things go normal, it's like a smoothly run factory.  Everything just get processed and completed in a very efficient way.

This morning was not one of those days.

I woke up, brushed teeth, headed out to garage, thinking about the songs that I needed to practice with the praise team.  It's 15 minutes before the practice started.  I would arrive on time.

And then I tried to start to car, and the car didn't start.

Struggled for about 10 minutes, and I finally decided to borrow my roommates car.  After driving for a few minutes on the road, I suddenly realized that all my drum kits and sticks are in my own car.  So I had to drive all the way back home, trying to juggle between 2 set of car keys and the corresponding alarm system while moving some drumset stuff from one car to another car.  It was a mess.

That totally ruin my mood and my concentration during the band practice, but at least I got through it.

Backed home, and I tried to figure out what the freak was going on.   Found  a pair of jump cable in the trunk of my roommates car, and I started to jump start my car.  It worked, so I thought it's over.  In fact, that was probably the second time I used jump cable.  It was also about this moment that my neighborhood told me that the rear light of my car was on ALL NIGHT LONG.  I was thinking like, that is odd, as I thought I turned off everything.

But then the battery seemed it died very fast, that was right AFTER I packed everything.  So this time I kept the car running for even longer time. 

But after charing for 30 minutes, the battery still died really fast.  I was puzzled until I realized that the rear light was ON all these time, and probably wasted all the battery that I charged up.  In fact, I started to wonder if that light was break light, which was something I could NOT turn off by myself.

So after I jump-started my car the third, I had no choice but go directly to the mechanic.  I was panic, frustrated, and very hungry at the moment.  It was 2 pm and I still haven't had my lunch yet.

So I spent about 2 hours there waiting.  Yes, I had Nintendo 3DS and iPad 2 with me so I was never bored.  But at the same time I was hungry like hell.  By 4 pm, the car was fixed.  There was some problem with the break light, and it was fixed.

So 4.5 hours of my life wasted, and now, let me cook.