Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 30, 2023

You have a knack for knocks…..

Didn’t know BUT they had DeSotos in 1941 with pop-up head lights, cool!

♫ Knock-knock-knockin’ on Hemi’s door…♫

The UPS driver woke my kids last night

I guess he went to the school of hard knocks

Last night my dad, brother-in-law, and myself were discussing shop stuff, I was raised on a farm but never really got into the nuts and bolts of farming, machinery, etc. I was trying to name something common in engineering parlance and couldn’t quite come up with it. My brother-in-law was also raised on a farm and is big into that sort of stuff, and this line of dialogue ensued:

Dad: “You need to go to engineering school”

Me: “What engineering school did you go to?”

Dad: “H.K.”

Me: “What school is that?”

Dad: “Hard Knocks”

Me: rolls eyes

Nice to see that ‘our hero’ Cosmo is keeping Irv in business (truth be known, Irv is probably the only mechanic around ‘Tree Tops’ that knows how to work on ‘the pink beast’) ! ! ! !

But those fins really make the car fly.

Ah, “No-Lead College”

Business has been sputtering.

Been there, traded my knocker for a brand new GMC mini van(2nd biggest auto mistake I ever made!…

Irv’s valve class was a real grind.

He seems so laid back. Guessing he’s not the type to blow a gasket.