Andy had engine trouble driving down from the land yesterday afternoon, so he coasted most of the way down to where the land leveled, about five miles from here. He phoned for me to meet him so he could try charging the battery.
It didn’t work, so we left the Jeep and drove home. We phoned AAA, using the number on our AAA cards for roadside assistance. It didn’t work. We got a message at the beginning, but never got connected to a person. Say what??
Before deciding they were completely useless, I went online and got connected to an AAA chat bot. It gave me another number to call, and that worked a lot better. The gal on the other end looked at a map, found where the car was, and arranged for someone to meet Andy at the Jeep. There was a bit of a slip up there. The fellow they sent out ended up waiting at the wrong place, but his dispatcher eventually phoned Andy (after a long wait) to see if the fellow had arrived. Andy said no, he was still waiting. So the dispatcher said the fellow would phone Andy, “Right now!” The fellow did and Andy told him where to come. So the Jeep was towed to our local mechanic.
Andy checked it in this morning before we drove to Santa Fe for a macular degeneration appointment. No blahs for us! As I told Andy last night, as we get older and older we have more and more adventures.
March 1, 2021
