That's It

I should know better.  The warning is clear - it starts with the statement “All I need to do is...”  From that point on, with a depressing predictability, it falls to pieces.  What’s most frustrating is that it almost always concerns the most trivial things.  You know, the sort of things you don’t really need to think about.  Like changing a car battery.  How hard can it be?  Admittedly the heat didn’t help but for God’s Sake, it’s just a car battery: two connectors and a retaining clip.  The connectors - easey-peasey.  The clip - buried behind cowlings, tubes, bracing and assorted wires and apparently welded to the chassis.  And with the locking nut located on the underside - completely obscured by just about every component in the engine.  Who designs these things?  And I use the word ‘design’ is its most generous interpretation.  Ninety minutes in the midday sun and all I have to show for my effort is two oil and grease covered arms with three or four scratches oozing blood and my only 13mm spanner lost somewhere in the internals of the four-wheeled skip blocking my drive.  Now all I need to do is...