It happens to the best of us, no worries honey

My truck is out of service due to a small (large) crack in the aluminum oil pan.

The drive thru at Burger King has a drop off from the passenger side, that is virtually invisible to anyone pulled into it. After Wife made her order she was prompted to pull into a parking spot and the workers would bring the order to her. She made a right turn and WHAMO, belly flopped our SUV onto the unmarked cement curb.

The call:
"JIM, I broke the truck at Burger King Drive Thru.
Are you ok?
Yes.
I'll be right there."

I pulled up to the scene to see a puddle of what must have been 5 litres of oil gathered under the front of my once pristine truck. This is not good.

Vicki gets out and says, "I'm sorry", I stayed silent, investigating the fluid type, clearly it was oil. I looked under the car to see a 4 inch long crack in the oil panwhere the last few drops of 5W30 were creeping into the embrace of 5 litres of departed brethren.

This is going to cost me.

Fortunately, if you can call it that, there was a car load of people behind Wife when it happened and they noticed the oil dumping from the truck and advised Wife to turn the truck off. It so happened that these were the owners of a large truck company and had a garage in town and could fix it for cash, and get the part at cost price for us. You see, this same thing had happened to them years ago and they felt really bad for us. So with my towtruck connections I had it taen to their compound and am in the process of deciding whether to replace or repair the oil pan. the difference between them is 280.00, but there are things to consider like engine warranty and so on.

Otherwise things are great!