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It Almost Makes Me Want a Nissan Leaf

It Almost Makes Me Want a Nissan Leaf By Elton Camp A car that has no way it can run on gas For the moment, I feel that I must pass For driving around near home it’s fine But that type can’t now become mine If only there were better ways to recharge We could take trips both small and large Now I am afraid that’d be out and about And the battery’s charge would run out Yet, how wonderful it would seem to me Of filling stations and attendants to be free When I was young, they filled up the tank But now many are both rude and a crank Receipt printer’s out of paper half the time Asking inside is often treated like a crime Wouldn’t be necessary if they’d do their job But many an attendant is just a lazy slob They are making a personal call on the phone And make it obvious they wish you were gone Both their breath and clothes smell like smoke It’s enough to make anyone cough and choke It would be just fine to me if there came the day When we propel our cars in some better way And the attendants could hunt another job Where they want to hire a lazy, fussy slob (All attendants aren’t like this, but many in our area are, especially Chevron.)

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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