Car Troubles...still

When you get that call from your husband saying the drive shaft fell out of his car you know it is going to be a problem. I don't exactly know what that is, but I figured with the word drive invovled it wasn't a good thing. After replacing that and a few other tid bits, the battery dies, you find your alternator is bad, you fix that and still the car won't stay charged, you get a new battery as well, but alas it still won't work. What's a person to do? You run an extension cord every night to charge what has now become an electric car until the problem is fixed. Good thing we always having willing helpers to stand there and laugh at Dad while he tries something new to solve this mystery.