I finally made it over to my mechanic’s to get the master cylinder fixed. I asked him to change the oil and oil filter while he was at it.
Everything went pretty much like he predicted. He then asked for the key to start the engine up just to give the car the once over before I paid him and took off.
When he turned the car off, everything changed…
It sounded like a dog was taking a leak on the floor…but there was no dog in the shop!
It was my car!
He had forgotten to put the oil filter on!
He didn’t cuss, but boy, did he want to!
“Boy, that makes me so mad!…I could just kick myself!”
I think that the only reason that he didn’t try was because he was afraid he might slip in the oil and end up on his…
Posterior!
I felt bad for him. I tried to cheer him up by telling him this.
As I was talking, I was standing in front of his tool box. A magnet held a series of pictures printed out from the Internet titled “Murphy’s Law Revisited”.
I took them down and started looking at them. (click on the pics to get a larger view)
Did you notice that there is a guy standing IN the water? Did you see the tires behind him? He is standing on a car! Now, that’s a problem!
“Fine…we’ll just get a crane and pull it up out of the water.”
“There you go…That wasn’t too hard.”
OOOOPS!
When I saw this one, I doubled over in laughter!
When I recovered, I looked at it again and doubled over again! I could almost hear ‘Mater’s voice (the tow truck) from the movie “Cars”!
The van is BACK in the water AND the crane is in the water! Now, THAT is a problem!
“What are we going to do now?”
“We could get a bigger crane…”
“I think we’ll have to…”
We’ve been here before so let’s wait and see what happens…
Good. That went pretty smoothly. Now let see about that other crane…
“This baby’s got plenty of power…You just got to hook it up and go!”
“We’ll have this buttoned up and be out of here in just a few more minutes…”
When I saw this, I laughed so hard that my stomach convulsed. I was reduced to squatting down on the floor with only my hand keeping me from completely falling over. Oh, was I in pain! Thus the new acronym Down On My Knees Nearly Falling Over Laughing So Hart It Hurts!
When I recovered, I told my mechanic that if he wanted to feel better, he just needed to look at this! He does not have any problems!
You can find the original pics here. The man who deserves the credit for taking the shots is here.
