Golf Cart Woes

We finally made it to Fripp Island for our long awaited family vacation with 5 other families, more about them later, and we get on our much desired golf cart to go see how everyone on the island is getting settled in. We were excited to see that the Sloops and the Rutlands were the next house down on the opposite side of the road. We stop by to say hey and see that they are still unloading the car. So we told them that we would come back later once they are settled and start down Bonita Rd. and all of a sudden our golf cart loses power. So.......... we all pile out and tell Mallory that she has to drive while we push since she is the smallest. That didn't work so well. She drove as though she had never driven her Barbie Jeep for years past and couldn't stay on the road, so we "Forced" Taylor Grace to drive. She started objecting and saying "no we I am going to get a ticket from the police!!!!!!!!!" She had seen signs posted everywhere that without a valid drivers licenses you would get a $200 fine. That's our rule follower! We must have been the afternoon entertainment for everyone watching. We were all barking out orders to TG, Mallory included. Then she gets the cart stuck up against this post as we are trying to get her to steer the cart through this just big enough space between some post and a palm tree because John wouldn't move the car before we left and wanted to maneuver around it. John then tries to lift the cart and pull it backwards. Well he does do P90X every day, BUT he could not lift the cart. Then he starts to push it and it won't budge. He is really made now!!! I suggest that once we get the cart out maybe it would make things easier if he moved his car. He moved the car and then suggested that we all go upstairs to take a breather. I send the girls both to their rooms because they are asking so many questions and making things worse. I grab my cell phone and go downstairs to call the golf cart owners to see if there is something that we aren't doing because we can't even get the battery that charges the cart to go on. Well after talking to the owners and they have told me everything, from checking to make sure it is plugged into the cart and is the plug to the battery plugged into the wall, etc... I told him that it was sparking and he said that it definitely shouldn't be doing that and to go to the Island Excursion to see if someone can take a look. I walk over there and get someone to come and look at it. On my way back I see both girls looking out the window like captives. So sad, yet so funny!! Comes to find out there is a whole in the battery and we had to get another golf cart. To get another golf cart we needed our amenity cards that we haven't picked up yet, so off John goes to get them. He gets there and they can't find the cards or no reservations for us to get them. So Fripp gives them a call and there is no answer, meanwhile I have the guy telling me that he is sure that all the golf carts have been rented out. I said no way, please go and ask BJ if I can use something because otherwise we would have to go without a cart until Monday or Tuesday. Funny how I know all these people on a first name basis by now. Sure enough BJ found me a cart and he told me that he would bend the rules some and let me rent a cart without an amenity card if I could get the owners club number. I got the card number and the golf cart saga was fixed. I hope the start of our vacation doesn't continue like it started.