Car Problems!

I got held up at work late - it was my own fault - I got really into a project and wanted to finish it!

Last night when I was laying in bed - I heard a car that obviously had a bad muffler - and it brought back a time that had me laughing out loud! Yes, to myself, as I lay in bed - I'm cool like that!

Any who it was a few years back - when I was driving my 1989 Buick LaSabre - I could tell something was going wrong with the muffler because it was really really loud. My Dad told me to call Al's Auto Body and let them know - so I could take it in and have it checked out.

Now - I am not THAT BIG of an idiot when it comes to cars (such as I know I don't need blinker fluid, I can top off all my oils, I can change a tire) but after hearing this story, you will beg to differ.

Two things happened that same day to have this conclusion come to mind.

1. One of our outside house cats had gone missing.
2. My muffler exploded

That afternoon I call the Mechanic:

Mechanic: "Hello"
Me: "Hi (Stupid Introduction) There is something wrong with my Muffler."
Mechanic: "What seems to be the Problem?"
Me: "Well - it's really loud - and I am thinking that our cat somehow crawled into the Muffler - and well ... exploded? I don't know how he would have got himself in there - but I am pretty sure it's tail is dragging out of the exhaust pipe and there is fur busting out of all the seams!"
Mechanic: **Laughing SOOOOOOO hard he couldn't speak!**
Me: "Our cat went missing today..."
Mechanic: **Laughing so hard he barley gets out** "One Second"
--- I can hear him trying to tell the Mechanic 'the story' and Mechanic #2 come on the line---
Mechanic #2: I heard about your Muffler **Laughing** Lets set up a time to check out your car.

Obviously I know now - that a cat didn't explode in my muffler - and I wasn't even trying to be funny at the time - for some reason that was the best conclusion that I came to. I had never seen a muffler that had exploded - and didn't know that the insulation in there looked like fur from a blown/black cat.

Looking back on it now I don't know HOW that was the only conclusion I could come up with - or why it made so much sense when I was telling the mechanic? I know there are more reasons it couldn't happen than this - but clearly a cat wouldn't be able to fit through the exhaust into the muffler - but for about a half hour - it seemed legit.