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Handling used oil; how deep is your love?

Are you like me?

Have you mastered the art of draining and replenishing the oil in your Porsche without spilling a single drop on either your garage floor or your clothes? Can you successfully do the "hot oil dance" during which magic event untold quantities of scalding hot carcinigens flush in a single moment (well two separate equally dangerous tranches, actually) from the nether regions of your engine and must be safely directed into an appropriate catch basin?

Can you also perform that amazing slight of hand that leaves audiences gasping in amazement as you deftly swap your oil filter without leaving so much as a single drop of used oil to sully your engine compartment or to later smoke on your exhaust manifold?

Are you like me?

After performing these magical feats do you later consistently embarrass yourself in attempting to deal with the huge quantity of used, filthy stuff that is now sitting in your oil catch basin?

Do you attempt to pour this used stuff back into the original plastic bottles/jugs for later delivery to a recycling depot; and during this exercise do you frequently cause massive spillage by either over filling the jugs, (because you can't see the level in the jug due to the damn funnel being in the way) or because you clumsily kick over the jug before you're able to get the cap screwed back on; all because you're attempting to fill/cap these jugs while simultaneously holding/pouring from a greasy/slippery basin of used oil?

Are you like me?

Or are you not rich and irresistable to women and/or do you know a better way to manage/dispose of used oil?
Old 07-25-2005, 10:53 AM
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