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My step son did a lot of work on his car, he was swapping engines, and called me out to the garage.  He had turned over a bucket and underneath was a pretty good sized black snake.  Being French, he didn't know much about US Snakes.  I very "cleverly"  pulled up the bucket and tried to usher the snake out with a broom, but the snake went up under his car and wrapped himself around the rear axle.  We pushed the car out of the garage, obviously too late now, and for about 3 days we'd see the snake's head peaking though a rear wheel opening.  Ben was not happy about working on his car with the snake around.  Eventually he did slither off (the snake, not Ben).  I tried squirting a hose up in there with no effect.

I was back in the garden one day and noticed about an 8 point good sized buck walking in my direction, I stood still and he passed about ten feet from me and never saw or smelled me.  He was pretty magnificent really. Those guys did a lot of damage to my trees.

I was once getting gas back in the day when they had full service everywhere, and a lady pulled up next to me in a Cadillac.  The gas jockey told her after checking under the hood she needed a new air filter, and she said OK, and he said it was $3 and $5 to install it.  I almost got out of the car.

These were the old cylindrical air filters that say between the V.

I had a fraternity brother who had a '69 Camaro that used oil rapidly.  His joke was that when he stopped at the gas station, he'd tell the attendant to fill up the oil and check the gas.

Living in a rural area, I get a lot of critters around the house or in the garage. A few years back when I was still going into the office daily, my wife called me from home hysterical about a "PYTHON" in the back yard. She grabbed the kids and went into the house, scared to death. I left work, got home and asked were she saw this HUGE snake. She pointed to the lawn tractor that she had gotten out to pull a wagon around the yard. I went out and found a 3 foot garden snake hiding under the mower deck, probably more scared than my wife was. I grabbed it and took it across the street into a field of beans and let it go. Never saw it again. 

I also had an instance were I was piddling around in the garage on a weekend. It was nice quite morning and I was enjoying just being outside in the garage. After a while, I turned around and there was a doe standing about 3 feet into the garage just looking around. As I was in the back of the garage with no lights on, I am guess she didn't notice me. She stood there looking around for about 2-3 mins and then just wandered back out of the garage and out to the fence row that borders the west side of my property. 

You weren't squirting oil on any shock absorbers or underneath the oil pans on the boss's orders were you?

no, but I had my tricks

I needed beer money - was making $3.25/hour

Gas was $1.17/gallon

Cigarettes - $5.75 a case - 60 cents a pack

don't recall the price of a 6er of Bud Heavy

I heard that it burns like pepper spray. As if the stink wasn't bad enough.