So I stole a car...what of it

But don't worry! I put it back!
The good ole trusty Humvee truck lets me down again. Because we are such a small base, we are not self-sufficient. We have to have all of our goods and services brought in from bigger bases around us. If we need to have maintenance done on a vehicle or piece of machinery, or if we need to turn equipment in, we have to load it on a convoy and send it to a bigger base. That being said, recently we had to send in some humvees for updates. These particular humvees had not been driven in quite a while...probably a month or so and humvees...if in the 'not been driven for fricken ever' state have a hard time starting up. Well when it came time to stage these vehicles today, they were dead dead...D-E-D dead. I had to borrow a humvee from another company JUST to get MY vehicles started. HAH! THEN...I let them run for a good while...ya know, to charge that good ole battery up. I shut one off...just as a test...and TRIED to start it back up. GEEZE LOUISE! that thing was STILL dead. The other one passed the test so I thought I was good.

Weeeeeeeellll...right before the convoy showed up to pick up our humvees I went to start them like normal humvees. would they start? of course not. It was late too...late enough for the other company (the one i borrowed the humvee from earlier) to be fast asleep in their nice comfy beds...and ALL their humvees were locked. hm. Well, one minor detail. They can padlock up the doors all they want, but they have a back hatch that doesn't lock :D That's right, I walked my happy self down to the company's humvee, opened that back hatch, crawled in the trunk, crawled through the little tiny space to the drivers seat and stole that humvee RIGHT from their parking lot. HAH. The hookups to jump it are underneath the front passenger seat...so because the doors were padlocked, i had to run the slave cable through the tiny open window. haha it was quite an ordeal...but we got those trucks a running! It was so dead that when i turned the lights on, they flickered for about a minute before they stayed on solid....I THINK that poor little trusty humvee needs a new battry...and QUICK! We drove them onto the flatbed semi (that's a scary business too! Not a lot of fudge room!) and shut them off...and I giggled a little bit when I thought of what they're going to have to do to get those poor humvees off the trailer when they get there! haha
And then...when it was all said and done we returned the humvee like it had never been moved in the first place :)