good morning everybody,<br /><br />hope all is well.<br /><br />Jim ~ it is drippy AND cool here this morning&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />  and foggy,  the humidty is so high, 100% LOL, you can about squeeze the moisture out.<br /><br />there is a azalea bush in the front yard loaded down with blooms. Right down there is soo much moisture on it that it is all bent over touching the ground, sad looking...Rose tried to pick it up and make it it happy I guess this morning...as we were going to the car to leave.  She got a tad bit wet&#33;  and the poor bush is still &quot;sad looking&quot;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":sad2:" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> <br /><br />Ok, another story.<br /><br />once again I left my lights on and ran the battery down...but i had gotten very good about checking them before i got out of the car.  I have a little ritual I do when I shut the car off.  it is a standard so I also make sure it is in first gear, bec. I always coast down my driveway, I pull the emergency brake, check the backseat for anything I have in the car and then I pull the keys out...well I have added checking the lights.<br />yesterday morning it was drizzling rain so I ran them on the way to school and both girls joked I would probably leave them on...Oh no, I say, I have added them to my checklist before I leave the car&#33;  HaHa, they say.<br />well I did that, turned them off no problem.<br /><br />BUT&#33; the problem came when I decided to make a flying trip to the county line yesterday afternoon trying to get there and back before i had to pick up the girls...we were having a little baseball game in our front yard with the neighbors and wanted to have plenty.  Plus I made this a clandestine trip bec. I really didn&#39;t want hubby to know we were &quot;getting low&quot;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wink2:" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> <br />Ok, as I am racing back home, and racing for me is driving 73MPH I never go over 60 usually - 65 if i am in traffic just so i won&#39;t get run over ~ I pass a state trooper on the interstate ~ I NEVER saw him up ahead&#33;  and guess what I have in the front seat with me?  a cold case of adult beverages&#33;  I usually put them in the trunk but I was in a hurry.  BUT, the only thing I was drinking was a Diet Dr. Pepper &#33; <br />So of&#39;course me being me panics thinking I am going to get pulled over...well, I look back...I know BAD mistake... anyway the trooper is my neighbor from down the road&#33;  <br />oh well, I just get off at the next exit pull into a gas station and laugh about it for a minute.<br /><br />but back to running my battery down.  I do get home but still a bit nervy I guess and feeling a bit rushed cause there was other things I needed to do besides hide the evidence, so in all that I left the lights on.<br />I realized that when I tried to start it in 45 min.<br /><br />Lucky for me hubby left the truck home so I drove that to school.  as soon as the girls saw the truck they said, &quot;Ha Ha, you left the lights on&#33; I say, &quot;Yes, I DID&#33;&quot;<br /><br />Hubby gets home wants to know why his truck been moved.  I tell him the car had an electrical problem and I had to drive the truck.  well the girls tattled on me&#33;<br /><br />so he makes me go get the battery charger out of the big shop, drag out the extension cord from the little shop, and hook everything up ALL BY MYSELF&#33;<br />the reason he &quot;made&quot; me do it is bec. he had showed me many times how to hook up the batt. charger.  I just always left it for him to do&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wink2:" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> Plus I wouldn&#39;t ever realize the batt. was down to the last minute so what good is it going to do me to hook it up then...I tell him&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" /> <br /><br />Yep...I left the lights on when I got home from school...that&#39;s my story and I&#39;m sticking to it.  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cool2:" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> <br /><br />HI to everybody and have a great day.