One missing engine cap brought an entire counter to a standstill. A woman needed a replacement for her Buick, but the name she gave left everyone staring at one another in disbelief. Before this collection of jokes veers into runaway wishes and costly misunderstandings, her simple sketch delivers the first surprise—and everything depends on taking one small, unexpected turn… Continues…

At an auto parts store, a blonde asked for a “seven ten cap.” It belonged on her Buick’s engine, she explained, and measured roughly three and a half inches across. Nobody recognized the part, so an employee offered her a notepad. She drew a circle and wrote “710” inside. From across the counter, the staff saw what she couldn’t: upside down, those numbers spelled “OIL.” The mystery ended in helpless laughter.

The laughs keep coming: an aging driver compares bodily troubles to leaking radiators and backfiring exhausts. A snail labels his speedy Datsun “240-S,” inspiring “Look at that S-car go!” Cinderella wishes her cat into a handsome man—who reminds her she had him neutered. A rancher spends $599 of her last $600 on a bull, then telegrams “comfortable”: “Come for the bull.” Finally, a baby’s earache persists because “R ear” on the eardrop label gets read as “rear.”