My Amazing Mechanical Husband

So after I picked Reid up from preschool, i got back in the truck and tried it start it. It completely shut down. NO power, nothing. We were planning on meeting some friends for playgroup at the waterfall (sorry we missed it, Reid was so sad). I called Jed (luckily he was home but had a class at 1:00, it was then 11:45). He came and took a look at it. The security mechanism thingy (technical words I know) turned on. It's there so if anyone tries to steal the truck it shuts it down completely. Why it turned on us, i don't know. Jed got in the truck, not knowing it wasn't in gear and pulled out the break. We were on a hill and he jumped the curb and ran into a neighbors tree. Luckily it just smashed some branches. It was a site though (and scared the owner) I wished I had a camera, it looked like we went out of control while driving and crashed.

After fiddling with the battery Jed realized there was a bad connection. By this time it was 12:15. We hooked the truck with tie downs then hooked it to our mazda. We needed to get it out of the flower bed and back onto the road. Luckily our mazda was strong enough to pull it (we'd push it but it was up hill).

To make a long story just a little bit longer, we dropped jed off to his class on time, picked up a battery then picked Jed back up and replaced the battery.

All I have to say is that I am grateful to have an amazing husband who knows a lot about vehicles. I know it was just a battery, but I wouldn't know how to fix it! Thanx babe for saving us!