OOTS!
Did you miss me?
Well we’ll see… won’t we?
Why is it no matter how hard you try to plan in preventing one, you’re just gonna have one of ‘THOSE’ days whether you like it or not?
I call them OOT days for short and you can have OOT moments also, which means you can have several OOTs in a row and OOTs just don’t care how many OOTs are already congregating in your brain, they’re moving in… like it or not!
OOTs are everywhere; there are OneOofThose days, OneOofThose moments, OneOofThose people, cars, children, dogs, you name it and it can qualify as an OOT!
For an example; while preparing for my trip back to Ohio, I decided to fix my very load exhaust so I’d be able to at least hear the radio while driving. “All is well.” I thought to myself as I proceeded to get on the road.
A couple of hours into the trip, I had just stopped for gas, checked the oil, etc. and was on my way again, then while trying to figure out where I was the exhaust started getting louder… louder… LOUDER! “What the…?” So I pull over to see if it would be a quick fix, maybe a clamp just came loose.
HAH not a chance! The exhaust pipe had broken off just above where I had fixed it before I left, “Wait just a minute… What the?” I muttered to myself as a foul smell filled my nostrils and some kind of hot liquid dripped on my forehead.
OIL!!! Oil was dripping on my forehead and smoldering on my engine and broken exhaust! “WHAT THE HELL?” This is a classic example of an OOT moment. But that’s not all… I then proceeded to look under the hood to see where the oil may have been coming from…
“WHAT THE HELL?” There was OIL all over my engine, the underside of my hood, oil was everywhere dripping, smoldering, stinking! Then I looked down and saw that my oil cap was missing… damn I forgot to put it back on when I added oil at the last stop!
This is an example of a Double OOT moment, or a DOOT! But wait that’s not all… I then figured out that there was a gas station about 8 miles from where I was, but then also realized that I was on the wrong highway and had been for the last 120 miles! “WHAT THE HELL?”
This is an example of a Triple OOT moment, or a TOOT! Oh but there’s more…
I then put the only half quart of oil I had left into the motor, stuffed a rag into the hole that used to house my oil cap, and then headed for that gas station I found to get more oil.
Anyways it was starting to get dark and since I couldn’t fix the loud exhaust I just filled up with oil and gas, jammed a Gatorade bottle cap in the ‘oil hole’ and got back on the road headed in the correct direction this time.
Then… it started to rain… and I soon found out why you don’t want oil on your windshield or wipers… the oil just doesn’t wipe off, it smears, then mixed with rain it completely coats your windshield and blinds you instantly!
!!!!“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH”!!!!
This is a classic example of a Quadruple OOT moment or a QuOOT!
Not all OOTs are created equal; perhaps we’ll explore them yet again…
~ Snarp
