Forming a Committee Around a Car That Wouldn’t Start

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall

 

The engine wouldn’t turn over; the electrics were dead

We stood around the open hood, each scratching his head

 

1^st Member:

“It appears to me it’s the dead battery

There’s no indication of a charge, you see”

 

2^nd Member:

“I’m a college graduate, so I am smarter

Obviously the problem is with the starter”

 

3rd Member:

“There’s a smell in the engine, something tannic

And I should know; I’m a certified mechanic”

 

4^th Member:

“I’m a knight of the road; I drive a freighter

Just let me at that broken alternator”

 

But none of our skilled efforts came to pass

Because no one had bothered to check 

 

the gas