Kentucky people

[FrChuckW]

Sorry to have not been on much today, I have been researching possible funding sources for land/farm purchases. And I had to make a quick dash to the store and one of the belts broke on my car's engine. So I guess I will have to put it in the shop again.

UGH! I hate cars! Give me a horse anyday!

 

[shelleyd2008]

At least if the car doesn't want to go you can get it fixed. A horse just does what it wants!! If it don't want to go, it don't go!

My car has been goofed up for a while now. It has some kind of electrical problem, it keeps shorting out the battery. I can charge the battery completely and let it sit and the battery will be dead in just a few days. I think I might just sell it and get a different one. After all the money I put into that engine, and it's gonna sit over a shorted-out wire? Really ticks me off!

 

[FrChuckW]

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Check your battery cables first off, they could be worn at one end, it's usually the posituve one that goes bad first, either up by the battery post or down by the starter. The next thing would be the alternator/generator going. Or it could also be your battery is going bad and won't hold a charge. How old is the battery?

Those are the three most obvious things I can think of off the top of my head. You only use the battery to start the car with, once the engine is going, it should recharge the battery.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Check your battery cables first off, they could be worn at one end, it's usually the posituve one that goes bad first, either up by the battery post or down by the starter. The next thing would be the alternator/generator going. Or it could also be your battery is going bad and won't hold a charge. How old is the battery?

Those are the three most obvious things I can think of off the top of my head. You only use the battery to start the car with, once the engine is going, it should recharge the battery.

Well, it's definitely not the battery. The one in it is a replacement new one for the other new one that it killed. I thought it was a bad battery and went and got a new one. The battery will go dead even if the care isn't being used, so I don't think it is the alternator. It can have a full charge, and sit in the driveway for 2 days and be dead. It might be the cables, I was going to replace them, but don't think I ever did. I have a bad habit of listening to my dad who thinks he knows everything. It would be my luck it would be the cables, and I wasted $80 on a new battery I didn't need. One day I will get smart and learn not to listen to him...

Correction: my dad thought it was a bad battery.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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the kid called and said "I'm out in ten minutes" it's a 13-15 minute drive to town - after I get my coat, and find my keys, etc... I figured I'd better hurry.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

when he moves to Michigan, probably.

He still doesn't have his license, because he sleeps til it's time to go to work, and doesn't ask to be taken out to practice 0 and I'M supposed to remember to wake him up to take him --

when I wanted to learn to drive I made SURE I found someone to take me to practice.

meri

(there's a show coming on TV I wanted to see, it's a half hour - be back in a half hour)

 

[shelleyd2008]

Yeah, he doesn't sound like he is in any big hurry. But then again, why should he be? Mom will take him anywhere he wants to go!

So correct me if I'm wrong, but your oldest is still in Michigan, and wants to move here, but your second born got dragged down here and wants to go back? Kids!

 

[FrChuckW]

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Time to cut the apron strings Mom, he needs to start depending more on himself and less on you.

How old is this child? Ten? If he is able to hold down a steady job, he really needs to start realizing that you won't always be there to hold his hand. I don't think your arm will stretch all the way to Michigan!

 

[cthrash1]

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Actually today I had to pick Cortni up at her BFs house, go to Lexington to meet Tubby Chicken to buy those Favs and then had to take Cortni back to Barbourville...I am plum wore out, feel like I'v been on the road all day...Oh yeah, I have been...

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Time to cut the apron strings Mom, he needs to start depending more on himself and less on you.

How old is this child? Ten? If he is able to hold down a steady job, he really needs to start realizing that you won't always be there to hold his hand. I don't think your arm will stretch all the way to Michigan!

He actually would have been gone before this, I talked him into waiting til after Christmas, so he could be home for that at least. I figured if he moved north and got a job, then that first year he wouldn't be able to take off to come home or anything. He's leaving in January.

Actually he is just 18, he graduated this last May.

meri