<OT> Humorous

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 19:50 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
>> Ric oughta get a charge outta this ..
>>
>> Broke my dipstick in my truck a few weeks back
>> Ordered a new one from the dealership (specialty item) on
>> Wednesday. They called yesterday for me to
>> come get my "OIL level indicator apparatus" ..
> 
> Ha! I've spent most of the day bleeding out some decidedly cruddy
> looking brake fluid from the Old Gal. I bought this little gadget that
> claimed to make the job easy for one person to do. 
> 
> Right... a little hose attached to a bottle with a magnet that wouldn't
> hold itself to the frame (the package claimed "Incredibly strong
> magnet") I spend way too much time trying to dangle the little POS with
> a tie wrap. A coke bottle and a bent clothes hanger would have worked
> just as well. It's a 1977 fullsized Chevy pick-em-up, and that fluid was
> really very nasty. 
> 
> Now, somewhere underneath Old Gal's skirts, between the 4 tires, I lost
> my 3/8" combination wrench. You tell me where it went, I have looked
> everywhere. <POOF!> It must have warped out to join the missing 1/2"
> wrench that I always lose right off the bat. I've never found a cheap
> 1/2" wrench in the loose tool bin in any pawn shop that I have checked.
> In our Universe there is a black hole that sucks them in when we aren't
> looking, and a white hole that spews them out into some faraway galaxy,
> where we'll never see them again. <sigh>  Ric

The real problem is that the faraway galaxy that gets all our 1/2"
wrenches is purely metric.

    -- Alma