sammy

So... I decided to change the oil in my car sunday. I was trying to figure out a new way to do it so that the front end was raised up a bit more so I could be sure to get all that dirty oil out, and to give me a bit more room under there. I tried to drive up on some cement blocks, but that didn't work. So then I thought I would drive down in the ditch and part way up the other side, and do it that way. I got halfway up the other side of the ditch... put it in gear, pulled the emergency brake and got out. I could hear the brakes creaking like it was gonna break free any second and roll backwards. I thought about putting something behind the back tires to block it, but then I had an image of me being rushed to the hospital in the back of an ambulance. I thought... "you know, no matter how I try to do this in the ditch, it just seems like a really bad idea all the way around."

I pulled the car out of the ditch and changed it on flat ground. It was a tight fit and I may still have a little bit of sludgy crap still in there, but so what... sludgy crap is better than a crushed sternum.