Hope no one objects to the occasional joke on this forum. Just got this from someone, and who better to share it with than this group?? One correction: We all know that #3 ("leave with properly maintained vehicle") is far from guaranteed!

Oil Change instructions for Women:

1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3,000 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.

Oil Change: $20.00
Coffee: $1.00
Total cost: $21.00.

Oil Change instructions for Men:

1) Go to auto parts store and write a check for $50.00 for oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree.
2) Pass liquor store on way home. Buy case of beer.
3) Pull into driveway, 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) 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: get hot oil on you in process.
12) Clean up mess.
13) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
14) Look for oil filter wrench.
15) Give up; poke oil filter with screwdriver and twist off.
16) Beer.
17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Finish oil change tomorrow.
18) Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
19) Discover that the used oil container is full. Instead of taking it back to O'Reilly to recycle, dump pan in hole in back yard.
20) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
21) Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
22) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
23) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.
24) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
25) Remember drain plug from step 11.
26) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
27) Discover that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along with drain plug.
28) Drink beer.
29) Uncover hole and sift for drain plug.
30) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor.
31) Drink beer.
32) Slip with wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame.
33) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 32.
34) Begin cussing fit.
35) Throw wrench.
36) Cuss for additional 5 minutes.
37) Beer.
38) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow.
39) Beer.
40) Beer.
41) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
42) Beer.
43) Lower car from jack stands.
44) Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
45) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during step 24.
46) Beer.
47) Test drive car.
48) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
49) Car gets impounded.
50) Make bail.
51) Get car from impound yard.

Parts-$50.00,
DUI-$2500.00,
Impound fee-$75.00,
Bail-$1500.00,
Beer-$25.00,
Total Cost -- $4150.00

But you know the job was done right!

 

Hahaha ... truer than most of us around here will care to admit.

 

I plead the 5th.

Not saying one thing.

 

Humor is absolutely forbidden on this board.

 

That does hit a little too close to home.......