I have to go to work, I was already like 10 minutes late setting off.
I called them and they're ok because it turns out the reason I need to be there it doesn't actually matter as long as I'm there by 3 o'clock.

But I have to sort that out and I'm going to see The Mighty Boosh tonight and I have to get ready and I was going to have a nap and I'll have to eat, and I have to buy Strepsils so I won't be pissing off the entire audience with my broken respiratory system all the way through.

I HAD PLANS AND NOW ITS ALL MESSED, UP I'M SO SAD.

WhatamIgoingtodo?

I called the RAC but because I'm not actually in labour or anything they are going to be at least an hour.

whats wrong with your car.
public transport?
is the main issue the fact you no longer are able to buy strepsils? peoples ideas of priority baffle me

The battery is dead, but I didn't leave the lights on or anything so I don't know why.

I can't use public transport because it would be very awkward to get to where I need to go, also I need to take this massive box of stuff and a giant net bag of toys. It'll be hard enough getting from my car into the building.

And Strepsils are VITALLY important.

Yes they are!

I have a septic throat atm, and yes, BY GOD! THEY ARE!



Also, my battery is like that too.
It doesn't hold a charge for more than two days at most.
No idea why.
So I end up starting it every day for 10 minutes even if I have nowhere to go.
Solves the problem for me!

Mikey, you're lucky/smart, as well as proper prepared.

The m-i-l's inherited and never used, big Buick has been garaged w/no drivers ( except sometimes we're backing it in & out to make room for other cars, f.e. ours or JB's sister's ); ever since The Colonel ( f-i-l ) passed away about 22-ish months ago.
Natural consequence = teh battery is tits-up allatime. Gee, wonder why... Widowed Spouse cannot figure it out, bc "That car was NEW!!"
Omg. Poor bewildered woman gets right cranky about that.

JB & I bought a mucho-buckage, huge, srs business Battery-Charger-Type thingy some yrs ago, specifically for those snowy below-zero scenario winter nasty weather in Iowa. It rly works pretty well, too.

Howsomefuckingdever: now we have to go over to his mother's house every few days to plug the damn thing into The Late Colonel's bloody car, to try keeping that enormous Buick's battery at least more-or-less functional. JB & I are trying to plan a sneaky way to drive that land-yacht of a car around & put some fucikng miles on it, just to gett a decent (we hope!) battery charge into it. ACK

But lolol: JB's mother refuses to believe nor understand "Why or HOW that would even help the battery work!!".

Just in case tho, we've bought a brand new battery for it. Bc I mean...!

Sympathetically yours--
AND hoping youe cold/virus gets better speedily

Chyia
P.S., It'll prob be some $$, but do you by any chance have something like "Roadside Assistance" on yr car insurance policy? -- OR, a warranty on your car battery perhaps? J/W; best of luck!