All my Jeeps were super easy,

Never got me all oily & sleazy,

Just slide right under & open the plug,

Close it, change the filter, then re-fill, glug-glug…

But this Pontiac with the pan plug tight,

Had to get a friend & neighbor to help,

Getting it back on was nothing, just turn right,

But then came the filter, now THAT was a freakin’ fight…

After awhile my neighbor did figure it out,

Now for sure I even can do it, no doubt,

It ain’t gonna be often as it is still not too easy,

Just the mere thought of it makes me now queasy…

I am NOT spending money at Jiffy Lube,

So the next time I will do it myself though I’m still a rube,

I was startin’ to think of myself as the proverbial boob,

But even when my neighbor (backyard mechanic) started to blow a tube,

I wanted to take from my last poem a acid-laced sugar cube…

© ed ~ 7/15/10