JUST JIGGLE THE WIRE
Her car was stalled at the intersection, the hood was up, and she flagged me down to help. “I can’t get it started,” she said. “But if you jiggle the wire on the battery, I think it will work.” I grabbed the wire on the positive battery cable and it came off in my hand. Definitely too loose. “The terminal needs to be tightened up,” I told her. “I can fix it if you have some tools.” “My husband says to just jiggle the wire,” she replied. “It always works. Why don’t you just try that?” I paused for a moment, wondering why her husband didn’t ride around town with her so he would be available when the wire needed jiggling. finally I said, “Ma’am, if I jiggle the wire, you’re going to need someone else to do it everytime you shut the engine off. If you’ll give me two minutes and a wrench, we can solve the problem and…
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