Re: Expedition into self-mutilation

From: Robert Trottmann (rotrottmann@davidson.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 07 1998 - 00:54:05 EDT


If your job sucks so much, quit and become a comedian, hell even my roomate is
laughing about this! He's ok, even though he drives a Mustang, can't wait to
get him to the track. :-)
Later,
Laughing Robert

Jack Hilton III wrote:

> While at work today , I was out front taking 3 minutes off of my life span
> again .
>
> A co-worker , we'll call "Jill" to protect her dignity , pulled up in her
> brand new 1998 Ford Expedition . She had only had the vehicle for just
> barely two months .
>
> A grand vehicle indeed , all decked out in a soft blue tint with aluminum
> wheels , no less .
>
> As she came to a stop in a space not more than 10 feet from me , I could
> swear I was smelling antifreeze .
>
> "No way" I thought , as this was a new truck , but it was the only one in
> the lot at the time .
>
> Sure enough , as she turns it off and gets out and makes her way to the
> front door , I see a puff of steam come up out of the passenger side cowl
> vent , much the same way you see Nitrous when people are purging it at the
> track .
>
> I yelled to her that her truck was smoking and she turned and met me at the
> front of the mighty truck .
>
> We lifted the hood and sure enough , it reaked of antifreeze .
>
> I didn't see any leaking under the hood , but she had said that the thing
> had overheated on several occasions and had in fact shut itself down
> because it got too hot (I guess she didn't know what the "H" meant , or the
> red part on the guage) . She went on to talk about how the truck had been
> nothing but one problem after the other ever since they had gotten it two
> months ago .
>
> I told her that she might wanna check the passenger side floor to see if it
> was wet , as I figured off hand that the heater core was leaking somewhere
> or one of the hoses was .
>
> Anyway , she went on her way and I just kinda smiled to myself .
>
> Not because she was having bad luck , but I just kinda looked across the
> lot at my R/T and said "Good girl!" to her under my breathe . I laughed a
> bit and went back to Hel.....I mean work .
>
> W . Jack Hilton III
>
> HEMI@charter.net

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