Mecha Striesand

Well well looks my hours of aimless car research is starting to pay off. SO yesterday i was sitting around in the bunk minding my own business when my friend walks in and asks if i could jump start her car. Now for the good part. The car was none other than a 2006 Toyota Prius. Now i didn't get a chance to take a picture so you'll have to picture this mentally. Parking lot, two large SUV's one on each side of the prius. On the other side of one SUV there are a couple empty spaces. Now as Ben knows (because i've explained to him exactly what is involved in jumping a prius before) Priuses have an auxilary battery in the back, the back hatch opens electrically so to get to it when the battery is dead you need to go through the back doors. So the jumper cable wasn't long enough to reach that so that wasn't gonna work. Now at this point you might be thinking ok so put it in neutral and push it back till you can get to the battery. Nope, not on a prius they don't have a neutral unless they are turned on. So we move to under to hood so see what we can do their. We find a point of contact for jumping to the starter. At this point we realize there is a sizeable gap between the front of the suv on the left and a tree in front of it. So a guy with a small car which easily fits in the gap tries to pull in but doesn't get very far due to a large stump on the side of the tree. The car had the battery on the drivers side so the cables wouldn't reach. Ok so that didn't work. My truck has the battery on the pass side so i figured i'd give it a try. I was able to squeeze in with about 2 inchs to spare on the SUV side and an inch to spare on the tree side. That was of course with the mirrors folded in. Had to crawl over the stump with one side of the truck which was sweet. But anyway made it in, popped the hood and watched as my friends jumped the prius right up. Of course when the Prius started the car alarm instantly kicked in and caused about a minute of annoying screaming before we shut it off. And that is how we jump a prius.