- Go to O'Reilly's auto parts and write a check for $50 for oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner, and a scented tree.
- Discover the used oil container is full. Dump it in a hole in the backyard instead of recycling it.
- Open and drink a beer.
- Jack up the car. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
- Find jack stands under the kid's pedal car.
- In frustration, open and drink another beer.
- Place the drain pan under the engine.
- Look for a 9/16 box-end wrench.
- Give up and use a crescent wrench.
- Unscrew the drain plug.
- Drop the drain plug into the pan of hot oil, getting oil on yourself.
- Clean up.
- Have another beer while the oil drains.
- Look for the oil filter wrench.
- Give up; poke the oil filter with a screwdriver and twist it off.
- Beer.
- Buddy shows up; finish the case of beer with him. Decide to finish the oil change tomorrow.
- Next day, drag the pan full of old oil out from under the car.
- Throw kitty litter on the oil spilled in step 18.
- Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
- Walk to 7-Eleven; buy beer.
- Install the new oil filter, applying a thin coat of clean oil to the gasket first.
- Dump the first quart of fresh oil into the engine.
- Remember the drain plug from step 11.
- Hurry to find the drain plug in the drain pan.
- Hurry to replace the drain plug before the fresh oil drains onto the floor.
- Slip with the wrench and bang your knuckles on the frame.
- Bang your head on the floorboard in reaction.
- Begin a cussing fit.
- Throw the wrench.
- Cuss and complain.
- Clean up; apply a Band-Aid to your knuckle.
- Beer.
- Beer.
- Dump in an additional 4 quarts of oil.
- Beer.
- Lower the car from the jack stands.
- Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
- Move the car back to apply more kitty litter to the fresh oil spilled during step 23.
- Test drive the car.
- Get pulled over; arrested for driving under the influence.
- Car gets impounded.
- Make bail; get the car from the impound yard.
Money Spent:
- $50 parts
- $12 beer
- $75 replacement set of jack stands (colors have to match!)
- $1000 bail
- $200 impound and towing fee
- Total: $1337