Mike: " My brothers car does not have power steering"
Ed: " It is important to know how to drive without power steering. You never know when the power steering will go out, or you might have to drive a friends car, besides its good exercise"
Mike: " What are you talking about? (you moron) All cars today have power steering. ITS USELESS!"

Keep that conversation in mind as you hear a tail of an Apo-Networks Easter. Have I ever told you about my uncle? He is a great mechanic except for one tiny detail. He can not fix cars. The name of his shop will remain nameless, but lets say you take your car there to get the air conditioner fixed. Yes they will fix the air conditioner, but then you find that the heater does not work. Or you have them change the oil, and suddenly you notice that when you get it back the tires do not seem to be the same ones that were on the car when you brought it in. 

So anyway in his latest experiment with the family car he decided to replace the cars battery and the alternator. Now one would expect that after you "fix" a battery the dashboard light that says "CHECK BATTERY" would not go on, but it did. 

So I figure its not big deal, I mean the "CHECK ENGINE" light has been going on every day for about 8 months and he has "fixed" the car about 10 times so it is reasonable to assume that the "Check battery" light does not mean anything. So we drive all the way to my other uncles house and have Easter dinner. It was a good Easter dinner. There was no arguing or fighting or anything you might expect from my family.

So we are ready to go home and the car does not start. So we figure charge it for 20 minutes and then drive it home.

 So we do that. We are about half way home and I notice that the dashboard lights are really dim, along with the clock and the headlights. In fact cars were trying to signal to us because they thought our lights were off. Little did they know that the battery was slowly dying from under us.

So finally I shut off the dashboard lights to "SAVE ALL AUXILIARY POWER" like the do in star trek. The car starts slowly chocking " CHICK CHICK CHICK " then the engine cuts off while I am on 684 doing about 50. And what happens when a battery dies? THE POWER STEERING GOES!!!! DID YOU HEAR THAT THE POWER STEERING!!! So luckily I was able to get the car to the shoulder by out muscling the steering. We sat on the side of the road for about 30 minutes waving my sweater like a flag until someone finally stopped and let us use their cell phone. Big UP to them.

So we call the police and my other uncle whose house we ate at, and we all get home safely. I feel bad for my uncle though today he took a night off from work and he did not even get to chill. Well anyway we all made it home with one more classic story under our belts.