OIL + WaTeR =?...

The news that sea water was mistakenly poured into parts of the Tema Oil Refinery ths week reminds me of how a cousin poured water into the engine instead of the radiator of my old Toyota van. (I nicknamed this van 'Sakumono Armour car' Ray, a friend calls it multipurpose strato-cruiser).

My cousin did not tell me what happenened. He quietely drove the van slowly to the nearest filling station and had the silvery substance drained. Igot toknow this because he did not have enough maoney to have the engine oil refilled. That was nothing to raise hell about. He was just trying to help me set off for work early, Maybe the mistake led to the the weakening of that engine in no time.

My mechanic recently worked on the clutch plate of a vehicle. Thre days later he had a phone call from the customer complaining about what a hell he might have done to her fairly new car. The vehicle had broken down on the Accra motorway. She thought the mechanic had done a bad job. But it was later found that she had poured a large quantity of water into the engine. She did not know where the radiator was!