I Had A Nightmare Last Night.
It was a long night
One sure sign you are a gear head is. You have nightmares that involve your boat, engine.. etc. No hot babes, no strange twisted trips. just engine problems. And an entire evening of trying to repair a distributer? What the hell? And I am writing this fast and early, because it woke me up and if I don’t get it down, its gone.
A dream?
NOW remember this is a dream, so it wonders.
I took a pal out for a boat ride during lunch at work before a meeting. We were riding along to a mall. The boat was running a tad strange so while my pal was in the fast food place picking up something I thought I will tweak the engine.
It’s right there.
I found the problem. The distributor cap was off. And I recall thinking, How in the hell did it even run?
So I put the cap back on and it wouldn’t fit, I noticed the rotor was sitting up, so I pulled it out, and some little round magnets plopped out and disappeared into the bilge. YES I KNOW! I TOLD YOU IT S A DREAM.
So you know when you pull on something and the spring in it flies out. Like that. So I recall thinking, ahhhh ship.
I can fix this easy
This is just getting worse. There I am in my boat in a parking lot, and my buddy is coming out with the food for everyone. And I have parts from the distributor flying out.
Okay, now I am pulling out pieces and trying to use my fat fingers to fix it. And one of the parts. A brass one. plops into the ground, which is now grass. I know that part is a critical part. And while I am at it, I get pissed and yank the distributor.
Ahhh
There I am sitting in the grass, putting a distributor together and somehow have double the parts. And I have lost track where they all go.
Okay, then I get it together and go to put it back in to make it back to work for the meeting, and now my boat is a car. A Corvair! And the distributor is in the speaker area behind the back seat, and I cant find where it goes in. I find a hole, and start tearing out all this original interior material to put the distributor.
Now as I am ripping the interior out, I have to pee. Like real bad, I dream I am peeing in the parking lot. But the erge is still there. And then it happened.
Ahhhhhh!
I woke up. And had to pee. The End. WTF!
OH Matt! What would Freud say?
BTW: There does not seem to be much difference between the wandering of your dreams vs the wandering of your regular stories. Your brain is an interesting place to visit.
Maybe you should call my mechanic? (It might help with your dreams also!)
Being a foodie my first thought was that your distributor had been replaced with a spaghetti maker.
That’s a better one than mine! Ever weld naked? Only bad part of that one-no one noticed
Ok, it’s official…….you’ve gone mad. Lol! You’re cut off from Halloween candy. Lol
It was some smoked ribs! I blame the dry rub.
I have dreams (nightmares where the boat is tied to the dock but awash and sinking. The other ones are still work related even after 2 1/4 years of retirement
Matt,
Wow, what engine does that spaghetti distributor go on?
Maybe it was the extra hour last night? Saw something yesterday about “getting an extra hour in 2020 being like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album” 🙂
The nightmare ending would be sitting in the boat and being pulled back home by a pontoon.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
That dream is very close to reality!
that was a dream? If you have been a boat gearhead as long as I have…that is just a repeat of a real day. And remember you can excuse it by saying it only happened “once in a Blue Moon”.
John in Va.
The things that you dream about on a Blue Moon.
Or pulling your boat and trailer with a crop duster airplane through a cornfield-prop chopped corn cobs flying left and right
V12 cap? What boat was that for?
Troy I need the number of your mechanic!
Love the start… Chris Craft being towed… 🙂
Ok I wouldn’t wish it on any woodie.
Dual ignition six cylinder. That cap was used on Nash automobiles, Buda, Graymarine, Hercules, and Kermath.
Thanks Jim
Jim, you know way too much. Never heard of a Buda engine. Googled it and sure enough, they competed with Hercules in marine engines. You da man!
CM:
867-5309 Her name is Jenny!
Matt, Just say no to drugs ……..
Oooooh the Corvair would be scary but to have made it truly the horrors of all horrors it should have been any post 1972 Volvo.
You have done a wonderful public service. Actually this might be your best post yet! FINALLY, I now have a baseline as a measurement for all my boat related bizarre dreams including the one where I went down to the dock for an early morning cruise and the Dalmation was waiting for me with her paws on the wheel.
How about going to bed with a 10(one of Troy’s girls) and waking up with a 2(a Giraffe)
It is the Chartreuse you sipped before bed
Lol, I can relate,,,,,,to the dream that is.