[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

The young @Tcoat walks into the local corner garage/gas station. The old timers are sitting around chewing tobacco and ask him if they could help him. Tcoat, rubbing is sore wrist and arm, asks "why is it that every time I go to start my automobile, the crank kicks back and hurts my wrist and arm"?

The one ol boy, wearing bib overalls, leans over, spits tobacco into a coffee can and asks "do you set the spark (full retard position) before you attempt to crank start it?"

Tcoat, being defensive, blurts out "are you calling me a retard?" The old boy sticks another wad of tobacco in his mouth and says "nooooo not YOU, the spark advance lever", as he

Young Tcoat - oh, ya, ................ now, is the spark advance lever supposed to be all the way down or all the way up?

The one ol boy turns to his buddies and says "in the last 30 years, that if he had a dime for every kid that came around here and asked that question, he would have enough money to buy a brand new Stutz Bearcat" -

The proper term these days would be "spark challenged"!