The Car Charger is Locked in the Car

"Jack, I can't get there!"

Carolyn was the most efficient wife in the camp. No doubt about it, she did more in the 24 hour day than most women do in a week, and none of us could believe she was calling on her cell phone to tell us that she couldn't get to the camp. Already an hour late, she was asking someone to come get her, crying into the phone.

"I can't get there, someone is going to have to come get me!"

"Okay, Betty's at Gramma's, I'll have her come by," Jack answered.

"Jack, Betty doesn't have the key. We need you to come back out here, because you're the only one with a key."

"Just ride in with Betty!" Jack was beginning to sound exasperated.

"Jack, the food is in the trunk with the keys. We've got to get the keys out of the trunk of the car. My phone is almost dead and the car charger is in the car." The incessant beep on the other end of the phone warned of impending disconnection.

Jack looked at the now dead phone. "Guess I'd better head for the ranch."

"Call Betty first, so she can go calm Carolyn down," another cowboy suggested, before Jack took off in his truck.

After a short conversation, Betty had the whole story.

Betty answered, "Dad, don't worry. I'll go check on Mom and I'll call if you need to come get her."

Time passed and within the thirty minutes it would have taken Jack to unhitch the trailer and drive to the ranch, Betty and Carolyn pulled into camp with both vehicles. There were a few surprised faces around, but nobody said a word. Carolyn laughed nervously, unloaded the car and started preparing dinner.

"So, how did you get the keys? All the doors were locked." Jack finally asked, reaching into his pocket to locate the keys to his truck.

Betty grinned from ear to ear as she held up Jack's keys, "I was at Granny's, getting the stuff out of the barn. I had YOUR keys!"

"So," Jack looked a little guilty at his momentous memory error, "Did Mom get her phone charged with the car charger?"

"Yeah..." Betty handed him the keys.

Can a Charger Mom get the REAL Concept

A few months back, I was busy working on my computer when my daughter screamed from the other room. "Mom, you are NOT a Charger Fan!" Most of the time, she speaks out of frantic disillusionment of my abilities to communicate. Never mind the fact that I'm an award winning author, have mentored and coached more people in my life than she's met or that I have a degree somewhere in my collection of paperwork that says I do know how to communicate.

"Not particularly," came my response from the office.

"This calls you a Charger-Mom. Not even a FAN at all, but a Mom of a Charger." Her accusation struck me as funny.

She's 25 going hard on 26 and doesn't catch the humor in her statement. I'm laughing, literally roaring with laughter, realizing that she's missed the whole point of the term "Charger" before Mom. She has two children, I have four.

When I finally gasp a breath, the realization that I'm going to have to explain the concept brings back the humor. I take a deep breath and try to ignore the fury in her face (an avid Broncos fan) as she faces me off from the door to my office.

"Honey, Charger-Mom has nothing to do with any football team," I start.

She interrupts, "You should know that's what people are going to think!"

"I don't care what people think! I start again. Charger-Mom has to do with my being the mother of four rather active and busy young teenager - adults, operating five (count 'em) businesses from my home office, continuing to home school two of the four children, and being a writer on top of all that. Not to mention... being grandmother to three wonderful grandchildren - two of them yours." I stop, smile and wait for the realization to hit her.

It doesn't.

She's still furiously attacking me for being a CHARGER-Mom.

Her world may never be the same again, since she can't quite get a grip on the concept of a mom charging into action to CHANGE the world and make it a better place for your "young things" and other folks.

That's probably what makes me the Coolest woman on the planet!

And that doesn't even start to explain the amount of times that I've been the one searching for a car charger and my CHILDREN have referred to me as the "charger mom" because I can't find the car charger... or some other strange car charger story...

Car Charger - Best Policies of Use

Recently, with two great teenaged drivers, we ran into the problem of where is the charger. It always shows up in the wrong vehicle. Usually, when we need it most - the car charger is in the other vehicle.

We decided quickly that we needed to get I-Go phone tips, since we all have different kinds of cell phones (although we're all with the same company). The best part of having a selection of I-Go tips in each vehicle is that we never have to carry a phone charger from one vehicle to the next. My daughter realized we were doing that, and now she has a set in her vehicle too.

I-Go tips for your phone chargers are a real lifesaver when you run out of power in the car. Car chargers from I-Go are reasonably priced and we love the way they ALWAYS work. The best part of all is that they even work well on my I-Phone.