I just had a older lady stop me in the Albertson's parking lot yesterday. She said, "Wow. That is the cutest car I've ever seen. I don't much like small cars, but I like yours. What kind is it?" I replied, "This is a Nissan Leaf."
As always... I totally anticipated the next question. This is invariably the question that always follows. "What kind of gas mileage does it get?"
Now.. I'm used to this question, and have dealt with it often. But the conversation that followed was more difficult. I explained, "Its an all electric car, so it doesn't actually use any gas. You just plug in it and charge it up every night." So she replied, "Where do you put the gas?" I replied, "Nowhere, it doesn't even have a gas tank." then she seemed so confused and said, "Then how can you know what miles-per-gallon the car is getting?"
I have to admit.. she had me stumped on that question. Telling her that the question was irrelevant obviously wasn't going to make any sense. Its sort of like asking what kind of gas mileage a rock gets. There's no real good logical answer to that.