It's a shocking day~

Today, two of my family car were send to the garage to repair. The Toyota was just simply fixing the water pump and changing the timing belt. And the Ford were to check the reason of unable to "waken" the car. And the result were the starter at first, but after the starter were fix, it seems to be the alternator were failed. Upon fixing the alternator, and finally got the car going home again, it stalled and the reason was the battery were dead. Darn it's a hot and slimy day. The Toyota i was driving were done fixing after 12 hours of hard work, and by the time we start the car, the air conditioning system kinda riot after just services a week ago !!!! D**M IT.
But it's not the last of it, later we try to recharged the battery, by keeping the car's engine running and let it charge. By the time I try to open the bonnet, to check the battery with multi meter, BOOM-SPISSSSSS~~~~ the water pipe blow in front of my face!!! good thing I was able to avoid direct contact.(thanks to my Tai Che and Karate training) But still it's a shock to me. It's just not a pretty good year for us(there's 3 out of 5 family member were dog zodiac.) Maybe the prophecy were true about dog year.......