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Well, I'll try to keep up with
that mood for a second anyway.

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This is a poem about how I'm
often intimidated by gas station

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mechanics.

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And it's simply that I don't
do things well with my hands

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and tend to yield to them
on almost every occasion

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no matter what they say.

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And the most extreme
example of this

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that I could give you is
that one morning I went down

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to start my car, it was
Volkswagen, the Volkswagen.

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And it wouldn't start, I
assumed it was the battery.

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And just when I was in
a hurry and it wouldn't

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have helped to
look under the hood

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anyway since I wouldn't have
known what was going on.

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So I called my brother and he
pushed me to the gas station.

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And I left it with them
and said if there's

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anything more grave
than the battery,

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just call me and went off.

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And about two hours
later I was at work.

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I got a call from hysterical
gas station mechanic

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saying that the battery
was fine but I didn't

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have any motor in the car.

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Overnight somebody
had stolen the motor.

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And the saddest part of
that, this really sad part

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was that if I had
looked under the hood,

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it would have been the
first time I could have been

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able to identify the problem.

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"At every gas station
there are mechanics.

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Around them, my
cleanliness stinks.

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I smell it and so do they.

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I always want to tell
them I used to box,

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and change tires,
and eat heroes.

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It is my hands hanging out of
my sleeves like white gloves,

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it is what I've not
done and do not know.

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If they mention
the differential,

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I pay whatever price.

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When they tell me what's
wrong beneath my hood,

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I nod and become meek.

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If they were to say I could not
have my car back that it was

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theirs, I would say thank
you, you must be right,

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and then I would walk home
and create an accident."

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