Car Trouble

We all struggle, and sometimes we don’t want to ask for help. Here’s my story of not asking for help!
A couple of weeks ago, my positive battery terminal stopped making a connection. In order to start my car, I needed to pop the hood, reach in, and mess with the terminal to make it connect enough to drive. I knew I would purchase a new one today, and it would be better! After all, I’ve replaced parts of my car before.
Except it wasn’t easy.
The first auto store I hit told me that the part I had found on the website (which claimed it was for my car) was universal and would work for my car, even after I had said the year, make, and model of it. We bought it and went back home to my car to begin replacing it with my boyfriend. We instantly ran into two problems. One, the bolts were corroded on both terminals, so we struggled for a short while until I realized that the terminals didn’t match quite right! It had two different bolt styles. At this point, we had already damaged the terminal, because we were expecting to throw it out, so we had to take my boyfriend’s truck.
We were drivin,g and I looked closely and read aloud, “For trucks, RVs, and tractors.” The lady didn’t even know what I was driving! So I walked in and she said, “You don’t have a truck?” I tried to initiate a return, but they initially didn’t want to. I convinced them to, and they recommended another terminal that they said would work. It had the same bolt style, so we bought it and left.
After over 30 minutes of trying to remove the bolt, we did it, and prepared to replace the terminal.
It was the wrong size.
We chose to go to O’Reilly (shoutout to them), and were given the original terminal for my car.
We brought it home, and it was smooth sailing after that.

Why didn’t I ask for help in the first place?
To start, I’m stubborn. It looked easy, and I was determined to figure it out. I also wanted to save money by not paying someone else for labor. They probably would have been able to get me the right terminal and have the tools for a corroded bolt, but we would have paid for them to come out to repair my car.

What did I learn?
I’m only going to O’Reilly in the future. I’m joking but serious. I’m also going to be more cautious in what I select to buy for car parts and if I start to struggle, I’ll actually ask for help sooner.

If you have to fix part of your car, I wish you luck and hope you don’t have any corroded bolts!