![]() I had not plugged in my ZENN the night before, so had to call and explain to Chuck that I had forgotten to charge my battery. ![]() Chuck wanted to make sure people knew about the benefits of a healthy diet. We were working on a campaign about nutrition. One morning I had a meeting with Chuck Matthaei, Chairman of the Board of the Roman Meal Company. I figured I had a range of about 18-19 miles, which was ideal for most of our driving. It’s designed for going to Safeway, Fred Meyer, Dollar Tree, nearby restaurants, hardware store, and other local shopping. The ZENN is what is called a neighborhood vehicle, you don’t take it on road trips. The car was blue, but I wasn’t at all when I noted the drop in gasoline costs. We named the car Azure Te (Paris Blues) a favorite song of Peg’s. We traded straight across – my Durango for the ZENN. My Dodge Durango was costing me a small fortune, so I looked around and found another used ZENN, flashier (like the one I had seen in Seattle) than Peg’s Mousey, in Bellevue, also. Lack of power steering was a little hard on Peg, so we sold the car for a profit and got her another car. It was a little slow going uphill on the winding road, but we made it. The manager said “sure.” Luckily I had brought along a fifty foot extension chord. It was lunch time, so we asked if we could plug in our car while we had lunch. We ran out of power just as we reached The Lobster Shop on Ruston Way. ![]() When they were all installed Peg and I retrieved “Mousey.” We didn’t know how far the ZENN would travel on new batteries, but drove from Puyallup toward our home in the north end of Tacoma. We had the car towed to a small auto shop in Puyallup and ordered regular automobile batteries sent to the shop. We got a bargain, because all of the batteries needed to be replaced.
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