You might be a bachelor if...

v8440

v8440

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This is something I made up and posted on facebook a few days ago. I thought you guys might get a kick out of it. (Yes, all of it is entirely based on my life at the present time.):


[h=6]You know you're a bachelor when...

You'll smooth put a can of soup directly on the stove like it's no big deal
You'll say "what?" when someone stares at you while you eat the can of soup with a spoon
3 carburetors, 2 sets of cylinder heads, and a nitrous kit live in one of your closets
The car those parts may go on has not run in at least 4 years
Nobody complains about either of those two facts
You leave guns sitting around the house and your biggest worry is one will fall on your toe
Your trash can is only 1/4 full when trash day arrives
1/2 of that trash is boxes that car parts arrived in[/h]
 
v8440 said:
You know you're a bachelor when...
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If I may add a few?

Running a laundry-load of whites includes six T-shirts all emblazoned with something automotive, a similar grey sweatshirt or two, and 9 socks (because you know that missing one will turn up eventually).
Your dog often eats better than you do.
You find a complete dash assembly for a car you sold 14 years ago in your attic and have no idea why you still have it.
There are more automotive chemicals under your kitchen sink than there are cleaning products.
You have used some of those automotive chemicals to clean your kitchen sink.
You know that putting Rain-X on your shower, tub, toilet and sinks dramatically increases required time between cleanings.
The two top contenders for highest population in your house are auto parts and dirty dishes.
You've used your dishwasher for cylinder heads, intake manifolds, and axle parts.
You spend the first four dates warning your lady about how bad your house is, make no effort to improve it, and on Date #5 you suggest her place again because, uh, "the dog will be rambunctious."
Your own Mom will not come further into the house than the porch.
Drywall is an unnecessary "decorating accessory".
You know your torque wrench is here somewhere.
Your toolbox is cleaner than your stove.
The organization of your kitchen makes absolutely no sense to anyone but you.
You have a pair of skis in your spare bedroom, even though you haven't skied in 22 years. Those skis are leaning up against a automotive chemical rack.
You pull 400lbs of scrap iron out of your garage, and it's still nowhere near clean.
 
You've used your dishwasher for cylinder heads, intake manifolds, and axle parts........and various motorcycle parts

You know that putting Rain-X on your shower, tub, toilet and sinks dramatically increases required time between cleanings.....as well as de-greaser works great on floors and automotiive wax makes the floor virtualy not need cleaned for a LONG time

you bring in the air hose to "dust"
use air hose in the house to blow out pc's
spraypainting in the house is never an issue
your own mother EXPECTS motorcycles to be rebuilt in the house ...cause thats what SHE used to do
 
I've used Rain-X twice and all it did was fog the hell out of my windows. :dgt: Only Rain-X products I use anymore are their wiper blades.
 
Heh... their blades suck compared to Ancos. I've used Rain-X for 25 years and never seen any kind of fog from it, ever... in fact, for fans of later cars with the crappy plastic wiper-motor drive bits, it seems to be the only solution. In a downpour so bad the police were pulling over to the side of the road, I was going over 80MPH with my wipers off. You're the first person I've ever heard say anything negative about it. Then again, I've only sold a few thousand bottles of it.

You do realize it goes on the outside of the glass, right? :D
 
Yea, back when I was hanging out with my uncle and his street rod buddies all of them used Rain-X, most didn't even have wipers on their cars!
 
i too had nothing but issues with that crap....i wax my glass instead remember were are in the pac north wet....the longer you can go without using your wipers the better...waxed glass seems to hold up longer and better than rainx...i think its mostly due to the drastic temp changes that the rainx sucks out this way
 
Drastic temperature changes? Uh, dude, you have no idea. The Pacific keeps your weather positively temperate compared to the midwest. Wax doesn't work nearly as properly-applied Rain-X. Not even close. You two are the only people I've ever heard complain about it, and once I clued my cousin Tom about it, he swears by it. He lives in Seattle.
 
I live in the Pacific north west as well and I love my rain-x. I put the treatment on all my windows and mirrors, and then also use the rain-x windshield washer fluid. I rarely turn on my wiper blades...once the water starts to bead and run up the windshield you better off not using the blades...just sets you back to square one again.
 
Yes I know it goes on the outside. :D Both my '88 Ford and my '93 Grand Cherokee windshields fogged pretty bad after using Rain-X. That was enough to turn me off the product. Waxing out here seems to work fairly well though. Oh and yes, the Midwest temps are far more drastic than here in Puddleville. ;)
 
If your having fogging issues with rain-X your putting it on too thick. One thin coat, let it dry to a hase. Wipe off. TOTALLY! Reapply a 2nd thin coat. Let dry to a hase WIPE OFF TOTALLY!
 
the first time i used it ..it fogged so bad i had to use carb clean to strip it off the glass.....the second time i tryed it slimmed up real bad..again wash the glass with carb clean...ive sworn the stuff off and went back to waxing the glass
 
Well, if you ever figure out the right way to apply it, you'll be amazed at how much more effective it is than waxing the glass. I've had bottles of that stuff last me almost a decade... a single 16" line of it, squeezing the bottle just enough that some comes out, is plenty to completely coat the windshield of a '72 Charger, '89 Delta 88, '87 Conquest, or '81 Mirada for a single coat. I finally ran out of the bottle I bought in mid-'94 to treat the wife's convertible when I did the windshield and door glass on the LeBaron in '02. It wasn't actually empty but there wasn't enough there to warrant keeping the bottle any longer.

It can only be applied with perfectly-clean paper towels, turning/changing often. A shop rag, no matter how clean, won't work.
 
I did mine with a terry cloth towel. Put a coat on, wiped it off, applied second coat... just like waxing a car. You can't tell me that using anything other than a paper towel will make it not coat correctly. :wtf:
 
I use paper towels and have never had a problem. I use it on the charger all the time. My wipers are useless because no one makes refills anymore and all the new stuff is to fucking tall to come out from under the hood. The wipers catch the rear hood trim. Jass did find me some ancco classics before he left the parts store. I haven't installed them as of yet.
 
I used paper towels and it worked great, I also used the ant fog in my Challenger because I didn't have a heater core, it didn't work that well...:shifty:
 
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funny how this went from the whole bachelor thing to the "great rain-x debate"..

btw.. you might be a bachelor if your wife asks whats wrong and you tell her.. its what worked for me!!!
 
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