Memories of Idiots

I'm currently writing a users guidebook for PiwiWiwi's campervans. Explaining how to check the oil to a layman has reminded me of an incident when a man came to collect a car he'd bought from me via eBay. He started it up, revved it, stopped it, then immediately checked the oil level. Unsurprisingly there was almost none on the dipstick. He then told me I was running the car with no oil & he wasn't happy. He would not accept that:

The correct way to check oil level is when the car is parked on level ground & engine hasn't been running for at least a few minutes. This means the oil has had a chance to run back into the 'sump' (basically a bowl in the bottom of the engine) so you can measure the oil level by poking a stick in (the 'dipstick') & seeing how deep into the oil it goes.

He regaled me with his amazing achievements as a business man & a racing driver & a man who gets things done & so he knows he's right but he was nothing more than an idiot.

Sorry if that's a bit dull! In other news the sun's out, its Friday afternoon & almost knocking off time, some chocolate appeared in our postbox courtesy of a kind DeVos & things aren't too bad. We're off to watch the first RWC match tonight & hopefully its a goodie!