My husband Chris is such a cheap you-know-what, he’d rather continuously jump start our car instead of going ahead and buying a new battery for it.
This is not Chris’s everyday car, but a car he using sparingly every once in awhile. It’s his first car he drove when he was in high school, 30 years ago. It’s so embarrassing leaving a restaurant or store, and pulling out the jumper cables on this junk! Not to mention having to ask someone to give us a jump. To avoid anyone catching on to the fact that he is a cheap bastard who won’t spring for a battery, he tries to ask different people for jumps. If he knows he’s already asked his brother and his best friend, then he’ll make sure he asks his mom or a neighbor for the jump, so that it just looks as if he is having a temporary problem and doesn’t actually do this kind of thing all the time.
Sometimes I wonder if he enjoys having people seeing him under the hood, like it shows off his manliness or something. But then I think, “No, he’s just cheap.”
When my parents came to visit for the holidays, he offered them our good car so they didn’t get stuck jumping the car. He used his car and still hadn’t bought a new battery, so, everywhere we went he had to ask people for a jump. I was mortified that he didn’t spring for a new battery. This has been going on for three seasons. Here we are, sitting in the car in the middle of winter, freezing, waiting for him to find a kind stranger who is willing to take the time to pull their car over to ours to jump start it. He even called my parents to bring over the working car to jump start the other car one time. Humiliating.
On Christmas morning, Chris went to lift the wrapped gift under the tree that was labeled as a present to him from my parents. He pulled a muscle in his back trying to pick it up, it was so heavy. He unwrapped it to reveal a brand-new battery for his car.
Of course, it’s now two months later, and he still hasn’t installed it.
If he doesn’t get a grip on the situation, he’s going to have a different kind of battery to worry about….. assault and battery!
– Courtney, Norco CA
