Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for July 26, 2016

As in Mr. Marino broke the original dipstick?

might be time for an oil change, Pronto!

That’s a dumb ass! As in the blonde wanting 710, which is OIL upside down!

…and it’s rusty. I’m with Cow Boy. Dummass

The car is still running? It’s a wonder the engine hasn’t siezed up by now.

When I worked at a local department store I came across a customer who was buying a new battery for his car and he was complaining about how this was the 3rd new battery he’d bought in a week because they kept dieing instead of running the car. Since I’d had a couple batteries die on my I thought I’d put in my own 2 cents worth and pointed out to the man that the battery didn’t run the car, the battery started the car and then the car runs off the alternator which recharges the battery at the same time. I told him that if the car was running off the battery then the problem was the alternator, not the battery. The man glared at me for a few seconds and then said, “What do you know, you just stock the shelves.” Then he grabbed his new battery off the shelf and headed for the checkout line.

I see.

Too short to reach the oil? Fine, drive it for about another week like that and you’ll get a shiny new dipstick on the new engine you’ll be buying to replace the one you just seized up. Nice move, all star.

I worked in an auto parts store for 15 years, and before that in a regular department store that also sold some auto parts. I had a similar situation, a customer was constantly bringing back batteries for replacement as “defective”. I looked up what he’d bought before, the battery he was using was NOT the one meant to go in his truck. I made a suggestion, “Have you considered upgrading to the battery recommended for this truck?” and the guy came totally unglued, cursing and swearing up & down the block over what a stupid (insert four-letter words here) I was.

Talk about being a quart low

comicsssfanA lot of schools have programs to train students in the art of thinking; it is just that most of these are extracurricular, and so cannot be used by those in other extracurricular activities or need to have part time jobs to help supplement the low minimum wages of the parents.