This poem is full of imagery and double meaning. We are all familiar with having to have our car jump started or helping someone jumpstart their car. Especially living in Minnesota. It is a way for two strangers to meet and sometimes that takes two people to a totally new place. I like the way she calls her car "Princess." (Unit 8 Readings, Ln 6) I believe she is referring to it being temperamental and not choosing to start; like the world will happen at her own sweet time. Forcing the "Princess" to start may make you regret it, or not, it is her choosing not yours. I have had cars like this, but I didn't call them "Princess!"
There are many double meanings such as "When our cars touched," (Unit 8 Readings, Ln 1). The space between cars and touched leads you into this other meaning. She could also be saying that "when we touched." The whole poem could be taken into the realm of two people touching.
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