Where is the Gas Intake?

Is it on the right or the left?

Where is the gas intake?

 

By Elton Camp

 

Hiding the gas intake is a car marker’s delight

They might even manage to put it out of sight

At one time, it was hid behind the license plate

But the companies put it on the side here of late

 

Although whether the opening is right or left

In many cars of this simple fact you’re bereft

Why can’t the makers give customers a surprise

And its location agree that they’ll standardize?

 

Very few families own just one car anymore

It has become common to have three or four

Almost every time I pull into the filling station

I find am uncertain of the gas inlet’s location

 

If next to the pump is the wrong side of the car,

It’s most unlikely the hose will stretch that far

So there’s nothing I can do but sigh and frown

I get into the car and laboriously turn it around

 

Some cars now have an arrow below the gauge

So as to spare their customers needless rage

As great as the cost of their infernal machine

That feature is one that should always be seen