M works at night. If the Kia Niro is not available to me, I don't want to drive it anyway. I don't want to drive anything anyway at night here. My old man night vision eyes tells me to cut that shit out.

I don't want to drive the SUV anyway. Just based on gas mileage and comfort level. Yes, the Yukon is a crazy high-end fun luxury vehicle. The Kia is just as comfortable and far more a pleasure to drive.

Keep in mind the Yukon is rather old and does not have cruise control. That's just one piece I was not willing to fix when I bought it. That means the Kia can hug the downgrades by automatically applying the brakes during cruise control (And it does it very well) versus the Yukon that I better pay damn close attention before the brakes either overheat or don't hold close enough during a downgrade.

This is a rare thing just based on the fact that I don't have many of those types of downgrades here. But when I do it counts.

All of this becomes moot when I engage the four-wheel drive. But I rarely rarely do that.

So it sits in my driveway. And I try to cut the grass that pokes out from underneath. And I annoy the neighbors.

The high-end deep discharge battery has been deep discharged one time too many and that thing is not keeping a charge. So I bought a flashlight sized capacitor jump device that is capable of jumping it a dozen times before a recharge is necessary. That will get me to town and back and parked a few times and rejumped if I have to. Actually indefinitely as long as I immediately plug it into the 12 volt charger and bring it back to top.

So if I ever choose to use it I will walk outside and jump it and let it run for a while. And while it's running I have to call it my insurance agent and activate the insurance. At that moment it's a minor cost for the month.