Monty by Jim Meddick for September 03, 2022

Yummy.

Nor is it funny.

After a week of camping up in California’s northern redwoods country, I popped the hood of my truck to check the fluids before we left for home and found that rats or some small critters had built a nest on top of the motor. Lots of lint and string and such, plus a mess of empty snail shells I assume was their midnight snacks.

If you don’t have the permit when you leave will they kick you out or make you go back to your camp site?

Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise. In about 3 minutes the wiring will short and cause a fire. Please pass the roasted acorns.

I admire Monty’s coolness at the discovery.

I saw a news article where the guy’s truck engine compartment was full of nuts. It happens each year, he said. He doesn’t use it much, I guess.

That’s the gratuity.

It’s twenty percent!

YUCK!! Ew! GAK!! Barf!!! Monty just took a swig of whatever the chipmunks put in his mug that isn’t acorns. Icky! Icky!

Quick, flush the mug!

Maybe it’s that beef stroganoff from the other night. :)

See the permit when you leave? Why? This is very silly today.

We got home from camping one year (we had 3 kids), found that one of them wasn’t ours.

He was a lot nicer than the one we had, so we kept quiet about it. Worked out fine.

It’s recycled acorns.

Anybody who’s ever had small rodents nest on / in a vehicle engine knows it’s not funny, a real pain in the tush, and expensive to repair. 2X veteran here; squirrels and rats.

I just remembered this. I had a dirtbike, it was stored in the shed. Squirell got into the air filter housing, ate the filter, filled the housing and intake of the carb with acorns, furr and squirell crap.

A delightful mess. A squirell is just a rat with clean clothes.

That’s just nuts.

Chip and Dale at it again!

I’m afraid to ask what’s in Monty’s coffee cup.

Eww! Just plain eww. Abandon the car and the travel mug, put in an insurance claim, get new ones, never go camping again!