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To: 1rudeboy

A few years ago I bought engine booster (goes in the gas tank) and a quart of oil for my car.

Poured the boost in the engine.

I immediately stopped what I was doing and had my car towed to a mechanic. He told me that it probably made things run smoother. (But proceed to change the oil for me anyway.)

dumb dumb dumb...


4 posted on 10/09/2010 1:05:53 PM PDT by Marie (Obama seems to think that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since Camp David, not King David)
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To: Marie

My daughter once added a quart of oil to the radiator in our B-210 thinking that’s where you put the oil. A week later I checked fluid levels and thought the engine must be shot because there was oil in the water. Daughter saw what I was doing and said “oh is that the water cap?” We got it straightened out but I despaired of her learning anything about that sort of thing and she got strict orders to call Dad whenever anything needed doing on the car. Later she was all-time valedictorian at her small college and went on to a very successful career with an MBA but she never could figure out cars beyond simply driving them.


16 posted on 10/09/2010 2:55:55 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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