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hunter

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3. My kid's been driving our older car, the one I usually drive.

Reply to mopinko (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 10:50 PM

Dec 2015

My wife got home around midnight (part of the longer story...) and said the car's interior lights were on. This is an old car. There is no timer. If the interior lights are on they stay on.

Fine, I went outside to turn them off. The car's doors were locked. I never lock the doors.

Went inside the house, couldn't find any of the keys in the usual places.

My wife tells me to wake kid up.

I thought probably not a good idea because I'd be sorely tempted to drive off in a random direction until the car ran out of gas. I'd just filled the tank, so near 300 miles at least...

Being the somewhat responsible adult I am I figured it was best to not wake my kid, go to bed, and not worry about a dead battery.

We've got jumper cables.

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