Goines On: The loaner

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When the Goineses returned from visiting their son and his family and in-laws in Minnesota, their 2011 Volvo V50 (a small station wagon) wouldn’t start. They were glad they hadn’t had to park it at the airport because a neighbor had offered to drive them. Back home on Monday evening, they needed to shop for groceries in the morning. Hard to do with a car that wouldn’t start.
    The car’s battery had previously misbehaved, so Goines assumed it had run down during its 11 days of idleness. The first neighbor Goines approached had a lithium recharger and had their car going in a minute. The Goineses had never even known there was such a device. Goines had expected to have to push the car out of the garage so the neighbor could pull his car alongside for a jump.