Then my friend Carol, who took the picture and patiently listened while Ann and I caught up on everybody and everything, and I drove to a Walgreens to get one of Carol's prescriptions. That's when her car battery died in the middle of the drive-thru lane and we had to wait an hour for AAA to show up. The guy took less than a minute to charge the battery, but he told us it was the car's original (from 2005) and should be replaced immediately.
So, then we hiked it over to Walmart for a new battery and to give me a chance to freak out over that store. Ugh.
But they replaced the battery quickly and the car is running again.