37,000 cc’s Of Gas

Today was the MMC Tech Day and we had a whop­ping 2 cars get worked on. I did the swap of the slightly stripped lug stud and Pres­i­dent Dave had his throt­tle body cleaned and a remote oil fil­ter mount installed. We had one per­son come to do some wrench­ing on oth­ers cars, Clunk. His part­ner Thunk showed up a cou­ple times through out the day to help or hin­der as needed.

My stuff­ing Club newslet­ters under unsus­pect­ing Miatas in park­ing lots paid off as some­one I had hit twice popped in for a while and vis­ited. Might turn out to be a mem­ber, might not.

On the way home I stopped in a Quick-Stop to fill up and real­ized I had passed through the 37,000 mile mark on the way over. My first clue was the slight smell of gas as I parked by the pumps, I didn’t pick up on it. Clue num­ber 2 was the speedi-dri crunch­ing under my feet as I started to fill the tank, didn’t reg­is­ter. Clue num­ber three was the sound of splash­ing fluid on the pave­ment, I got it. The auto­matic shut off on the noz­zle I was using was bro­ken. I stopped at $25.37 and I bet at least the 37 cents worth spilled onto the ground.