Go With Me on This

Driving through a flooded street can be fatal to your car’s engine. When driving through deep water, your engine’s air intake, usually intended only for taking in air, can suck up water. If this water works its way to the pistons, the engine is likely a goner. Pistons are used to squeezing air with a little fuel mixed in, a concoction that compresses nicely. If a piston tries to compress water, something that generally doesn’t compress, bad things happen, like the bending of metal pieces that had been calibrated down to the hundredth of an inch. If this happens, the car stops. The engine can’t be repaired, only replaced.

My head feels like I just drove it through an eyeball deep river of snot. The sinus pressure is killing me. If only I could replace my head.