The entire counter froze over one baffling request. A woman needed a “seven ten” cap for her Buick, and every question only made the mystery stranger as she insisted the missing piece belonged on her engine. Then someone handed her a notepad, unaware that one simple drawing would turn their confusion into helpless laughter and finally reveal the trut… Continues…
A blonde walked into an auto parts store looking for a replacement part nobody recognized. “A seven ten cap,” she explained, certain that was its name. The employees exchanged puzzled looks. She knew it came from her Buick’s engine, but she couldn’t explain its purpose or how it had disappeared. Asked about its size, she shaped her hands into a circle roughly three and a half inches across. Still stumped, one employee slid over a notepad and asked her to sketch it.
She drew a round cap and carefully wrote “710” in the middle. From across the counter, the employees saw something entirely different—and suddenly started laughing. The mystery hadn’t required a catalog, a mechanic, or even a look under the hood. It only needed a different viewing angle. Turn “710” upside down, and the lettering reads “OIL.” “I think,” one employee finally managed, “you want an oil cap.”
