Solving all my problems in 75 minutes

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Today’s Blog Post


Solving all my problems in 75 minutes

Warning – this is twisted!

The dream was twisted! It had everything in it that I have been dwelling on and trying to sort out. And it all happened in a heart beat… at least it seemed to.

My eyes popped open at 4 AM to look at the clock… the thought quickly came, ‘close your eyes it is too early to get up’. So I did. And that is when it happened.

I have been trying to sort out how it all squeezed into my dream. And it was squeezed in tight for the next 75 minutes, at which time my eyes popped open and I was in cold sweat from what I had just dreamed.

It is not the first time that this has happened. I won’t tell my coffee buddies in the morning, when they state, “You look a little tired today, sleep okay?” – I will reply, “Yah, no problem there… I fall asleep in a few seconds.. I’m okay ( I think…)!

I need to purchase another vehicle as the old one now has around 400,000 Kms on it and has virtually died in the driveway. Yep it is still sitting there. I think I will cut the top off and use it as a mobile planter for my wife’s flowers next summer… don’t need insurance for that. But that thought wasn’t in the dream.

No sooner had my eyes closed the dream started.

I was driving in a new country, on a complicated road system… up and down and around… through muck… through sand that was super soft… around thick stands of trees. And the best part the Vehicle was BRAND NEW… Wahooo!

The vehicle had a completely new style motor that no one knew anything about. It was revolutionary in everyway. It used next to nothing for fuel – almost running on air!

With this huge savings in mind, I was able to drive for hours upon hours for almost no money!

At one point my passenger and I had crossed into the USA from Canada. The area that we crossed over the border was in Southern Saskatchewan and we were in North Dakota. The country was so familiar. I knew all the roads… yet it had been years since I had traveled these roads… and I knew the way to the next town.

I needed to know the way because something happened to the motor in the New Vehicle… and it quit just outside the small service station. The service station happen to have a service bay that was open. I couldn’t get the car into the space, so I opened the hood and took the motor out of the car by myself. It was very easy to do.

The service station owner stood watching me and was very impressed with the ease that I could do this.

I explained to this poor country boy that the motor was a brand new design and needed only four nuts removed to lift it out of the car. More than that when I had it out it was so light in weight that I carried it into his work bench… then click, snap, pop the motor was all apart on his work bench.

I explained to the guy that the motor was the most efficient one ever made to date… and that was all because of its simplicity. I told him that it was a lot like the Model T Ford car’s motor that I had when I was a teenager. Then I told him how I had taken it all apart and fixed everything up to run like a top.

As I worked on the motor from my new vehicle I discovered the problem as to why it had stopped. Some idiot had not put oil in the crank case. It was bone dry.

I checked the manual in the car and found out that it only needed 1.5 litres of oil. The problem that I was going to have was that I was in the USA and they had only gallons and quarts of oil… and the country dude didn’t understand my need for 1.5 L of oil.

It was plain and simple… as the motor was a part it was cooling down. I realized that if I went to the grocery store I could likely get some vegetable oil that would work even better than the service station oil…

That was when it started getting confusing and weird. The country dude asked me if I had checked the oil in the crank case before I began my journey. I had told him that I had built the car from a kit that had come in the mail…

I assured him that it would work if I put oil in it. He asked me then, “Why did it stop then? Maybe it is broken and you can’t fix it?”

I looked at him with a startled look on my face and then… woke up.

There I was… it was 5:45 AM, I am awake, in bed 1700 miles from where I left the car in that service station… with the motor on the bench all apart… a country dude looking it over and not knowing how to put it all together… and I am in Peterborough, Ontario… sweating because of my problem in North Dakota, USA. And in my driveway is this broken down van that uses way too much gas… but will work well as a planter next summer.

Where did that dream come from? It was way too vivid for comfort. The stress I felt while dreaming it was way over the top.

And the guy in the car with me was my old friend Gord. Gord lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Gord had written a note to my mom for her “Life Book” that we gave her for her birthday. He had told the story how he and I had driven to North Dakota with only a pocket full of change for gas and food…

Hokey Mokey.. the morning coffee crowd will never believe this one … and it would take way more than 75 minutes to tell them and even longer to get them to stop laughing!

A big pause and a deep breath…
Have you ever dreamed something that is not finished when you wake? Have you ever wondered what will happen the next night when you go to sleep…?

I have.

I fully expect to get back to that garage tonight and put the motor back in the vehicle. I know exactly what to do. I will take 1.5 L of good Canadian Oil with me.

Come to think of it… I know how that motor was made. It is so simple… and no one has yet made one like it…

Maybe I should call GM or Ford today. They might fund my trip back to small garage… and then pay me enough for the new ideas in that motor…

Wait a minute… Hold on… am I still asleep?

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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