HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE
NUMBER 13 VOL 15
MONDAY OCTOBER 13TH 2008
WEATHER; WARM, LOW HUMIDITY, 66/81 DEGREES
LOCAL GAS PRICES ARE STILL ON THE DOWNWARD PLUNGE! THE ONLY REAL CHANGES I NOTICED OCCURING THIS WEEKEND WERE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE WAS DOWN TO $3.31 AND A BARREL OF OIL HAD DROPPED ANOTHER $3.00 TO $69.00!
SORRY FOLKS, I TRIED TO DO THIS CHRONICLE LAST NIGHT BUT THIS TAIL BONE INJURY JUST HURTS TO MUCH FOR ME TO SET AT MY COMPUTER! I’VE TRIED DIFFERENT PILLOWS AND BRACINGS TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE BUT TO NO AVAIL! I WRITE A LITTLE AND THEN HAVE TO GO SET IN MY RECLINER WITH A BIG PIECE OF HI-DENSITY FOAM! THIS PIECE OF FOAM IS WAY TOO BIG TO USE ON MY COMPUTER CHAIR AND IT ONLY HELPS FOR A FEW MINUTES! I’M WAITING FOR A CALL FROM THE DALLAS VA TELLING ME WHEN I’M TO COME DOWN THERE FOR A REVIEW OF THE INJURY AND WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR IT!
MOM WENT IN TO HELP SHANNON AND THEN TAKE HER TO THE DOCTOR! I GUESS EVERYTHING IS OK OR I WOULD HAVE BEEN TOLD!
I HAD MOM STOP AT AUTO-ZONE AND PICK UP 2 QTS OF LUCAS THAT I KEEP PUTTING IN THE ENGINE! HAVE ANY OF YOU HEARD THE STORY ABOUT “STP?” WELL, LUCAS MUST BE LIKE STP! HERE’S HOW THE REPORT READ ABOUT THE GERMAN VEHICLES CAPTURED DURING THE WW II NORTH ARICAN CAMPAIGN; THE ALLYS WOULD CAPTURE A BUNCH OF GERMAN VEHICLES AND FOUND THEM OUT OF GAS OR DIESEL AND NO OIL IN THE CRANK CASE! SOME AMERICAN MOTOR POOL MECHANIC FILLED ONE WITH DIESEL BUT DIDN’T CHECK THE OIL IN ONE OF THEIR TRUCKS THE EQUILIVANT TO OUR 6 BYEs (6 WHEEL DRIVE) AND STARTED IT UP AND GOT IN A CONVOY LINE AND DROVE IT ABOUT 200 MILES TO A RE-PO DEPO AT ABOUT 50 MPH WHERE THE ALLYS WOULD PAINT OUT THE GERMAN SWASTEKA AND ALL THE IDENTIFYING NUMBERS AND PAINT ON THE WHITE STAR AND THE NEW ASSIGNED NUMBERS! THIS WAS HIS TRUCK FROM THEN ON AND ANYTIME IT WAS USED TO HAUL FREIGHT/TROOPS HE WOULD BE THE MECHANIC/DRIVER! AFTER THE 200 MILE RUN HE LIFTED THE HOOD AND PROCEEDED TO GIVE IT THE ARMY’S 21 POINT INSPECTION! WHEN HE GOT TO THE OIL HE DIDN’T FIND ANY AND ASSUMED IT HAD THROWN IT OUT OR BURNED SINCE THE DRAIN PLUG WAS STILL IN PLACE! SO HE FILLED IT UP AND MADE A NOTE ON THE CHECK LIST TO CHECK THE NEXT GERMAN VEHICLE HE FOUND STOPPED BY THE SIDE OF HE RODE
BECAUSE IT WAS OUT OF FUEL OR BECAUSE OF SMALL ARMS FIRE! HE FOUND A GERMAN SCOUT CAR (VW) AND CHECKED IT AND FOUND NO OIL AND STARTED IT UP AND DROVE IT ALL OVER THE LANDSCAPE AND RACED THE ENGINE TO WHERE IT BUMPED UP AGAINST THE GOVERNOR BUT HE COULDN’T MAKE IT OVERHEAT OR LOCKUP LIKE IT WOULD DO IF IT WAS OUT OF OIL! THIS REALLY GOT HIS CUROSITY UP AND HE FOUND A GERMAN MOTORPOOL MECHANIC IN A POW CAMP WHO WAS WITH ROMMELS AFRICA CORPS AND ASKED HIM WHAT THEY USED IN THE CRANKCASES OF THE ENGINES OF THEIR VEHICLES! THE MAN TOLD HIM IT WAS JUST THE BY-PRODUCTS OF THE REFINING PROCESS AND IF HE WANTED SOME HE KNEW WHERE THERE WAS A WHOLE TRUCK LOAD OF IT! THE MAN TOLD HIM WHERE IT WAS AND THE AMERICAN MOTORPOOL MECHANIC WENT TO HIS N.C.O.I.C. AND THEY WENT TO THE COMMANDING OFFICER AND CONVINCED HIM AND HE ORDERED A 6 BYE AND THEY HEADED BACK TO GET THE TRUCK LOAD OF THE STUFF WITH THE GERMAN MOTORPOOL MECHANIC! WHEN THEY GOT TO TOBRUK AND FOUND THE STOCK OF ADDATIVE THEY DRAINED THE ENGINE OF THE 6 BYE AND ADDED 3 LITRES OF THE STUFF AND STARTED THE ENGINE AND HEADED BACK TO THE AMERICAN LINES! IT RAN BEAUTIFUL! FROM HERE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WENT ON BUT IF I REMEMBER RIGHT THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE MOTORPOOL WAS AN AMERICAN LT. COLONEL NAMED GRANATELLI!
I REALLY BELIEVE THAT “LUCAS” IS THE SAME PRODUCT THAT USED TO BE CALLED “STP!”
THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISSUE.
HOWARD
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