Service Has Gone Down the Gurgler

 

Service has gone down the gurgler

Petrol station forecourts are gone

Fill up your car by yourself chum

Watch it go in till it's done

 

Car registration's online now

Or queue up in person all day

They won't put more staff on to help you

They want you online, go away

 

The final insult comes on having

To book hospital admission online

What happened to the specialist's receptionist
Doing this in their usual time?

 

I'm sick and I'm so tired of doing

Other people's job (and not paid)

Service has gone down the gurgler

Disappeared, gone, I'm afraid

 

The only place I get good service

Is my garden centre (can we help you?)

They choose and bring plants to my car boot

And don't charge a dollar to do

 

I don't like the way we are going

I'm wanting to scream and shout out

But it won't make a damn bit of difference

'Cause it's greed for the dollar we're about

 

When we start changing direction

See people more important than cash

There might be a chance to then fix up

This wound in society – this gash

 

Don Matthews October 2018