Having your oil changed

[AKaTom]

Oil Change instructions for Women:


1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 miles since
the
last oil change.
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a properly
maintained
vehicle.

Money spent:
Oil Change $20.00
Coffee $1.00
Total $21.00
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Oil Change instructions for Men:

1) Wait until Saturday, drive to auto parts store and buy a case of
oil,
filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree, write a check
for
$50.00.
2) Stop by 7 - 11 and buy a case of beer, write a check for $20,
drive
home.
3) Open a beer

and drink it.
4) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7) Place drain pan under engine.
8) Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
9) Give up and use crescent wrench.
10) Unscrew drain plug.
11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: splash hot oil on you in
process.
Cuss.
12) Crawl out from under car to wipe hot oil off of face and arms.
Throw
kitty litter on spilled oil.
13) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
14) Spend 30 minutes looking for oil filter wrench.
15) Give up; crawl under car and hammer a screwdriver through oil
filter
and twist off.
16) Crawl out from under car with dripping oil filter splashing oil
everywhere from
oles. Cleverly hide old oil filter among trash in
trash
can to avoid environmental penalties. Drink a beer.
17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Decide to finish
oil
change tomorrow so you can go see his new garage door opener.
18) Sunday: Skip church because "I gotta finish the oil change."

Drag
pan full of old oil out from underneath car. Cleverly dump oil in
hole in
back yard instead of taking it back to Autozone to recycle.
19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
20) Beer? No, drank it all yesterday.
21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil
to
gasket surface.
23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24) Remember drain plug from step
11.
25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26) Remember that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard,
along with drain plug.
27) Drink beer.
28) Shovel out hole and sift oily mud for drain plug. Re-shovel
oily
dirt into hole. Steal sand from kids sandbox to cleverly cover oily
patch
of ground and avoid environmental penalties. Wash drain plug
in lawnmower gas.
29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor.
Throw
kitty litter on oil spill.
30) Drink beer.
31) Crawl under car getting kitty litter into eyes. Wipe eyes with
oily
rag used to clean drain plug. Slip with stupid crescent wrench
tightening
drain plug and bang knuckles on frame.
32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to
step 31.
33) Begin cussing fit.
34) Throw stupid crescent wrench.
35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit bowling
trophy.
36) Beer.
37) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required t o stop
blood
flow.
38) Beer.
39) Beer.
40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
41) Beer.
42) Lower car from jack stands.
43) Accidentally crush remaining case of new motor oil.
44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled
during
steps 23 - 43.
45) Beer.
46) Test drive car.
47) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
48) Car gets impounded.
49) Call loving wife, make bail.
50) 12 hours later, get car from impound yard.

Money spent:

Parts $50.00

DUI $2500.00
Impound fee $75.00
Bail $1500.00
Beer $40.00
Total - - $4,165.00

But you know the job was done right!

[Icarus]

that appears accurate

[WC846]

i quit that a long time ago.after i got the beer i never made it home.

[Preacher]

That's where I have the advantage by not drinking beer.

[AKaTom]

I know its supposed to be humor, but I sure can relate to alot of that

[fuzzy]

you forgot about a lube job ,you know spend 10 mins trying to find the grease gun were you flung it last time you did it. finding grease etc those @#$% fitting.

[Scorpion8]

I am shocked and appalled. <g> A gathering of manly men who build guns and grunt and build things that make loud noise and blow up, and you jest about oil changes? The picture may be accurate, but we should revel in the oil under our fingernails, exhalt in that first gush of hot oil as it pours all over your hand as you try vainly to get the drain plug out, and sing the sounds of manliness that comes from owning a race jack just to pump up the front end of the wife's minivan once every three months or 3000 miles. These things should bring out the inner-neaderthal in us, not be cause for lightsided humor.

So what if I own five oil filter wrenches in my quest for "the right one"? So what if I have a Dymo label maker just to print the next due oil change and stick it under the door seal? The manly side of life is escaping us.....

[infamous ted]

whew

[CeeKay]

Done it....


- CK

[oron]

Pretty much.
Only $40.00 in beer ?