An Out of the Ordinary Adventure

  Yesterday was a first for me, as I went rescue my parents who were stranded in a parking lot with a dead car. It started out as a typical Monday night. I was babysitting and reading The Magician's Nephew to my little brothers before bedtime, and then the phone rang. One of my brothers went and got it then brought it to me. My dad was on the other end and he and my mom were stuck a Pet's Mart parking lot where the car's battery had ran out. Dad needed a new battery, some tools to put it in, and he needed my to bring it to him. So I gathered the necessary equipment and a brother then ran to the van. Digory and Polly were left in the Hall of Images and another brother was putting all the little kids in the house to bed.
  When I sat in the driver's seat of the van I rested my head on the wheel for a moment and prayed for speed and safety. Before going to save my parents I had to run by Auto Zone to pick up a new battery for the car. Here now is a testimony to scheming of auto-parts salesmen and my own feminine duplicity. My brother and I walked into the store and I asked for a battery for a 2002 Ford focus. The, uh, male human being asked what the motor size was and I blew then because I said I did not know and then I said was and emergency and really I just needed a battery fast. Do not ever tell someone who is trying to sell you something that it is an emergency and you need it fast.
  Well, I bought the battery he pulled off the rack and $150 later I was driving to Mom and Dad as fast as the law would allow (trust me, nobody wants to speed in a twelve passenger van). After passing Pet's Smart, driving the length of the shopping center it calls home, and doubling back around, I finally found my parents. Dad and my brother replaced the dead battery with the one I had been duped into buying and then we all went home. I got to bed by eleven and may or may not have vowed to studying auto mechanics. And so ended my adventure.