- Ute + kaputski battery = $21.00 taxi fare to work, $25.00 taxi fare home (will be reimbursed, however) and dumbass ex flatmate took all the bus timetables.

- Walk half hour home from shop after taxi drop off with two heavy bags

- Contemplate kicking ute on way up driveway, but might hurt oneself

- Unload demineralised water and new torch

- Shrink wrapped torch - simultaneously kicking oneself for not buying a pair of scissors and hating whoever the hell came up with shrink wrapped products

- Check battery - first cell opened is empty

- Open one by one, getting battery acid on fingers and refilling

- Also hating whoever designed a battery bracket to sit between two of the caps

- Hurt fingers getting them open - used a piece of junk mail lying on the driveway in lieu of a rag

- Spilled water on battery - won't start ute until battery is dry in case it shorts out. Fire extinguisher in tool box in back under Tonneau cover and ute might burn to crisp before said extinguisher is retrieved.

- Finished, and sees fat parcel jutting from mailbox. From Mum. New book and season 3 of Doctor Who.

- Is happy.