>To all the great Father’s out there enjoy your day! I thought I’d share this joke with you all.
So you want to changer your oil and your a man you can do it by yourself.. but is it really worth it?
Saturday:
- Drive to the Auto Parts store and buy a case of oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree. Write a check for $50.
- Stop by 7-11 and buy a case of beer. $20.00. Drive home.
- Open a beer and drink it!
- Spend 30 minutes looking for the jack stands, which you finally find. Jack car up.
- In frustration drink another beer.
- Place drain pan under engine.
- Spend an hour looking for the 9/16 box end wrench. Give up and use a crescent wrench.
- Unscrew Drain plug.
- Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil. Splashing oil all over good shirt since you have told wife there is no need to change into old clothes.
- Crawl out from under car to wip hot oil off of face and arms. Throw kitty litter on spilled oil.
- Spend 30 minutes looking for oil filter wrench.
- Give up: Crawl under care and hammer a screwdriver through the oil filter with the hammer and twist oil filter off.
- Crawl out from under the car with filter dripping oil all over the driveway.
- Cleverly hide used oil filter among trash to avoid environmental penalties.
- Neighbor shows up. Finish off case of beer. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow so can go see the neighbor’s new garage door opener.
- Sunday, skip church because ” I gotta finish the oil change.” Drag pan of oil oil out from underneath the car.
- Cleverly dump oil in hole in back yard instead of taking it back to Auto parts store to recycle.
- Throw Kitty litter on oil spilled while removing the drain pan.
- Run to 7-11 again to buy another case of beer.
- Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.
- Dump first quart of oil into engine. Remembering the drain plug removed yesterday is now buried in a hole in the back yard with the used oil.
- Shovel out hole and sift oily mud for the drain plug. Steal sand from the kid’s sandbox to cover the oily patch of ground in the backyard.
- Wash the drain plug, using lawnmower gasoline.
- Throw kitty litter on the first quar of oil that drained onto the driveway.
- Drink beer.
- Crawl under car getting kitty litter in eyes. Wipe eyes with rag used to clean the drain plug.
- Slip stupid crescent wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame. Bang head on floorboards in reaction to pain from banging knuckles. Begin cussing fit and throw crescent wrench.
- Crawl through wife’s roses to retrieve crescent wrench.
- Track oil through the house while finding band-aids to use on head, knuckles and scratched arms.
- Drink beer.
- Dump in 5 fresh quarts of oil.
- Lower car from jack stands accidentally crushing remaining case of new oil.
- Move car back to apply more kitty litter to oil draining out of case.
- More beer.
- Test Drive car.
- Get pulled over, and arrested for driving under the influence. Car gets impounded.
- Call loving wife after church, to post bail.
- 12 hours later get car from impound yard.
- Money spent:
- Parts– $50
- DUI–$450
- Impound Fee– $175
- Bail– $1500
- Beer– $40
- Total== $2215.00
Moral of the story pay the $30 or so and take the car in to get the oil changed. Relax!