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
Oh, your last sentence is so, so true!
Yes!
your life is certainly never dull! I’m glad it worked out.
and nice that it waited until the mounds of heavy snow were Gone! 😀 xo
That was a real blessing. 🙂
Sometimes I am not so crazy about our adventures…other times they are hilarious.
You should have seen us fumbling with our cellphone so that Andy could use it with AAA. 😀
Isn’t that the truth about getting older! And us seniors really need AAA! I’m glad it eventually all worked out. But they need to keep you better informed when they change their numbers.
I tried their useless number again today. It basically says they want everyone to have a smart phone and install their app rather than phoning in. At least we understand that now and can work around it.
Everything is “use our app” these days! What I can’t understand is, not EVERYONE has smartphones/computers. Glad it got straightened out. How did the appointment go?
The appointment was fine. It took less than two hours there, which is short for them…there’s always a lot of waiting. We’re not complaing because they are keeping his eyes going.
We left here at 8:40, got back to town slightly less than four hours later. He has an appointment for the other eye next month, then nothing for another three months. Every four months for each eye is a lot better than in the beginning, when it was every month for each eye. That meant two trips a month.
Adventures is a good way to describe life’s ups and downs.
It’s a great attitude to have. Things go much more smoothly when we don’t get upset.
Glad Andy was able to coast close enough to home that you could meet him. Fun times, car trouble, aren’t they I say with tongue-in-cheek.
Yes, “fun times” 🙂
the thing is as we age, all things become adventures. last week, a AAA Roadside assisatance truck pulled in our driveway, i opened the door and he said you need a battery jump? i said no, we don’t have triple AAA, he said they gave me the wrong address, and repeated mine. i said that is this but we did not call. he sat in the driveway for over 5 minutes on his phone and I said to Bob, i bet the person that called is upset. so who got the address wrong?
we use AARP roadside assistance and have only used it twice in 10 years, but both times they were quick. we had a flat tire in a restuant parking lot when we came out. Bob’s knees don’t allow him to kneel and our spare is under the car. how dumb is that. hope your repair doesn’t break the bank
I’ll have to compare AAA and AARP. We had AAA years ago, mainly for their travel books when we traveled, and we just went back to it last year. Andy will pick the Jeep up tomorrow. It was only the alternator, so it could have been a lot worse. The Jeep is about 10 years old and has 175 miles on it, so we can’t complain when it needs some maintenance.
Thanks for the head’s up about AAA’s telephone number switcheroo! I’m not sure we’d be as cool n’ collected. I recall the time my boss cautioned us against using the term, “Problem,” and said we were to say, “Challenge.” Now I’m going to start saying, “Adventure.” (*grin*)
The subtitle of Cheerful Monk is “Life as a shared adventure.” Blogging every day helps. When challenges come up I start thinking about what I’m going to post about it. It keeps me centered.
Always good to have some variety in life, but we bet you could have done without this one. We hope the problem can be fixed easily and reasonably.
Andy will pick up the Jeep tomorrow. It was only the alternator, so it could have been a lot worse.
I love that you view it as adventure and not an annoyance.
xo
Thanks. 🙂
Hope it gets fixed. That was certainly and adventure!