- WOMEN:
- Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 since the last oil change.
- Drink a cup of coffee.
- 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a properly maintained vehicle.
- MEN:
- Go to O’Reilly auto parts and write a check for 50 dollars for oil, filter, oil lift (AKA kitty litter), hand cleaner and scented tree.
- Discover that the used oil container is full. Instead of taking back to O’Reilly to recycle, dump in hole in back yard.
- Open a beer and drink it.
- Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
- Find jack stands under kid’s pedal car.
- In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
- Place drain pan under engine.
- Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
- Give up and use crescent wrench.
- Unscrew drain plug.
- Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil; get hot oil on you in process.
- Clean up.
- Have another beer while oil is draining.
- Look for oil filter wrench.
- Give up; poke oil filter with Phillips screwdriver and twist it off.
- Beer.
- Buddy shows up; finish case with him. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow.
- Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
- Throw oil lift (AKA kitty litter) on oil spilled during step 18.
- Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
- Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
- Install new oil filter making sure to apply thin coat of clean oil to gasket first.
- Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
- Remember drain plug from step 11.
- Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
- Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil drains onto floor.
- Slip with wrench and bang knuckles on frame.
- Bang head on floor board in reaction.
- Begin cussing fit.
- Throw wrench.
- Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December 2001.
- Clean up; apply Band-Aid to knuckle.
- Beer.
- Beer.
- Dump in additional 4 quarts of oil.
- Beer.
- Lower car from jack stands.
- Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
- Move car back to apply more oil lift (AKA kitty litter) to fresh oil spilled during step 23.
- Drive car
Tag Archives: gender difference
His and Hers Road Trip
HERS:
- Pulls off at wrong exit.
- Opens window
- Asks directions of a knowledgeable police officer
- Arrives at destination presently.
HIS:
- Pulls off at wrong exit absolutely positive it’s the correct one.
- Drives five miles into wilderness, still thinks he’s right.
- Drives an extra 5 miles just in case.
- Finally rolls down window.
- Hocks a loogie.
- Pulls up to a 7-11.
- Gets three hot-dogs, a large slurpee, and beef jerky.
- Asks person behind counter how to get back onto the highway.
- Gets back into car.
- Farts.
- After he closes the door.
- Laughs at the idea of looking at a map as he pulls away from the 7-11.
- Drives down a dirt road with no street lights insisting this is the way back because guy from 7-11 said it was.
- Almost hits a deer.
- Curses the night.
- Curses you.
- Curses the large slurpee.
- Stops by the side of the road.
- Takes a leak.
- Still taking a leak.
- Almost done.
- I think.
- Returns to car.
- Drives and fiddles with radio.
- Yells at you for suggesting the map again.
- Admits he didn’t want to go to Thanksgiving at your sister’s anyway.
- He hates your sister.
- Ever since she called him a pernicious weasel.
- He had to look up pernicious.
- Couldn’t find a dictionary.
- Finally found a dictionary.
- Couldn’t spell pernicious.
- Seethes at the memory of it all
- But she is laughing inside…
- And of course you’re still lost.