<OT> Humorous

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 21:07 -0600, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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.

Good! It serves them right. There's no reason for us to be alone in our
collective angst in the entire cosmos. I wonder what we get in return?
An extra blue sock in our sock drawer? That would explain much, Alma. I
think you hit the nail on the head. Matter cannot be created nor
destroyed, but it can be re-distributed. In an infinite universe there
must be a thousand monkeys at terminals doing email, somewhere. 
<eek eek ook ook> Ric

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