Yep.. some people just don't try.
At my night job, I was leaving one night and there was a waitress in t he aprking lot with her hood up. I go over to see if she needs a jump.. she thought she did.. turns out her battery cable was loose and wouldn't make a good connection. She had told her B/F about it and he said it looked ok.
The bolt was so coroded that I couldn't get it to move with a wrench or socket. She looked a bit forlorned.. I said.. 'no problem', and reached into my pocket and pulled out a penny.. laid it on the ground and gave it a couple good whacks with the handle of a adjustable wrench ( those can be used as hammer right? ). making it half mooned shaped. I then drove it between the slightly loose bat cable and the 'non adjustable' clamp.. worked like a charm... she looked at me like I had just performed magic or something... kinda sad...
I told her to call her dad and tell him she needed a new positive cable clamp.. or at least a replacement bolt/nut for it. ( the next week she informed that yes.. her dad DID put a new nut/bolt in it after she asked her B/F to fix it, and her B/F said the penny would last just fine! )
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