Well put Sean!!

by the way, I'm Tom..sorry...never did introduce me self.
Hi Tom, good to have you around. I'm the resident longwinded poster.
Mine's pretty cool too. He helped push my car out to the street for a tow when the car was broke down.
I think we got some extra points with our mailman when mom and I gave his truck a jump when it died in the driveway. Or "jumped it off" depending on whether one's a GA native or not. I'm a smartaleck and always respond "Nah, I can't jump off your car, I can't even jump on solid ground... but I can give your *car* a jump if you'd like." Such pedantry usually gets me funny looks.
People still crank their cars, too. Past tense "crunked," e.g. "I crunked it and crunked it, but it just wouldn't crank."
Took me an embarrassing number of years to realize that using "crank" for "start (a car)" was left over from when cars indeed *did* have crank starters. Not like I didn't know said cars existed (I'm from Michigan, after all), but for some reason it took me a while to realize that Model Ts were indeed the provenance of the current Southern phrase.
Thanks, I'm trying. Maybe it's this warm spell we're getting, don't know. Laying on the couch even hurts like hell... and is getting real old. I started watching this new show a few days ago. I'm just starting season 2, episode 22. Not that it's a great show, but there's some good characters & quite frankly it's about all I've been able to do.
Hang in there, Oz, hope it lets up soon. What's the show?