The car wouldn’t start this morning even though it was
plugged in. The battery is trying to tell me that after 13 years of faithful
service, far longer than any battery is expected to work, it is time for a new
one. I understand that it wants to retire, but retirement for a battery isn’t
like retirement for an old postie.
When you are a battery, you quite literally have no energy
left for retirement. The best you can hope for is to be stashed away in the
corner of a garage, collecting dust and every now and then having the trickle
charger hooked up to your posts, so that you might one day work as a back up
for the “new guy”. That can be both positive and negative.
The worst that can
happen is that someone (me) will take you to the scrap metal yard and trade you
in for what amounts to a cup of coffee.
Sucks to be a battery!
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