“What’s this car run on?”
“It runs on love,” I said.
The investor stared at me. “Really?”
“Yeah.” I was sweating. “You think about someone you love; it powers the car.”
“I’m out,” he said. “I don’t want to break down because of an attack of road rage.”
Actually, the car ran on belief. If you believed it worked, it did. But belief was too nebulous. You had to concentrate on something. I picked love.
The next year, I saw an ad for the Chevy ‘Murica. It ran on American greatness. They sold millions.
I should have gone with that.
The Green-Walled Tower 
February 27th, 2016 at 9:04 pm
Aha, very clever.
February 27th, 2016 at 9:29 pm
Thanks, Joy. 🙂
February 27th, 2016 at 9:06 pm
Nice
February 27th, 2016 at 9:43 pm
Great idea! Some people have a hard time believing in things…I wonder how many tried to buy one of these cars and couldn’t even drive it off the car lot? 😱
February 28th, 2016 at 7:03 pm
That would be pretty funny. 🙂 Not a car for the cynical.
February 27th, 2016 at 9:59 pm
Haha it’s all about the sales pitch. I’d rather a car that runs on love. 😂
February 28th, 2016 at 7:03 pm
I wonder how the people on Mad Men would have pitched that.
February 28th, 2016 at 4:42 am
Dear David
Hm…I wonder how that slogan would work…A car that runs on rage. It could be all the rage. Oh those slogans that tried but didn’t make it. Your story is the body and fender of those. Sort of like Snap, Fizzle and Poop. 😉 I’ll stop blathering now and say ‘good story, you clever one.’
Shalom,
Rochelle
February 28th, 2016 at 7:01 pm
You could go into marketing yourself, Rochelle, if you ever find yourself bored. 😉
February 28th, 2016 at 8:08 am
Unfortunately love and belief are in short supply. Great take.
February 28th, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Thanks. I’m pretty sure the oil company’s would try to crush a car that ran on love. 🙂
February 28th, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Love it, so clever. I’d take the car that runs on love over ‘murika any time.
February 28th, 2016 at 6:59 pm
It’d be a good exercise in positive thinking, at least. Maybe it would actually cure all road rage, when people had to think about love just to get to work. 🙂
February 28th, 2016 at 8:04 pm
Dayum. lol
February 28th, 2016 at 10:35 pm
🙂
February 29th, 2016 at 9:35 am
I’m with Gah… I’d not have too much faith in a car that runs on “Murika”…
March 3rd, 2016 at 9:17 pm
In that case, you’d better not drive it since faith is the only thing that makes it go. 🙂
February 29th, 2016 at 11:43 am
I’d prefer love over Murica greatness. We see how that’s worked out. Great take, David!
March 1st, 2016 at 9:10 pm
Thanks, Amy. I was hoping no one would get mad, thinking I was making fun of any certain group of people who might use that term.
March 1st, 2016 at 10:31 pm
It certainly didn’t bother me. 🙂
March 1st, 2016 at 10:18 am
Yes, flattery will take you far. Funny story but I can believe it would have worked. Well done, David.
March 1st, 2016 at 7:03 pm
Thanks. 🙂
April 2nd, 2016 at 11:10 am
fantastic!