Metal on metal... Wait, What?

There was a point in time when I had a car. It was great to drive and go to yard sales and get into little parking spaces and used lots less fuel and blew cold A/C. It had issues when we bought it and we knew that, but instead of doing anything, we just kept adding oil. Most the time. And then there was this one day where I heard weird metallic-y noises and after several miles I called Blake. Would you believe it but he told me to stop and he would bring me oil?!

That was when I learned what a motor sounds like when it runs on no oil. I was told in great detail that not much longer later it probably would have locked up. (Amazingly that car drove out of this driveway for the final time a couple weeks ago, and we still never had done any work to it!)

Vehicles driven by Blake and I are constantly changing, mostly due to the fact that we buy cheap rides with the intent to fix them. I hear that the shoemaker's son doesn't have any shoes. Apparently the mechanic doesn't have time to work on his own vehicles either. Well, this truck we are driving now-and have been for several weeks- is one we bought because it needs a new motor badly and the previous owner didn't care to put the money into it.

This morning I decided to go home quickly to get something I forgot. A cool song was playing on the radio and I had hardly headed down the road when I noticed that the song had some music I hadn't noticed before. It sounded sort of like metal on metal. Thinking I really wanted to hear the song, but knowing I'd better do the wise thing, I turned the radio off. And yep, the noise was still there. Metal. on. metal. I turned around and drove the quarter mile back.

Blake was disgusted that we'd run the truck out of oil, but headed out to get the jug of oil on the back of the truck- the one that apparently was waiting there for just such a time.

That was when he called me to come over. He had a smirk to his voice and I knew I'd done something wrong. That was when I saw the log chain. It had slid out from under the tail gate and... was dragging on the road. Metal on metal? Yeah, my diagnostic skills, wrong once again!