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09-24-2008, 10:03 PM
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Atlanta is out of gas.
That's right. Most of the stations are out because of a panic run on gas. It's supposedly due to the hurricanes. It was very strange driving around town and seeing all the islands blocked and closed.
I waited 1/2 hour at Costco, not bad. But others have waited hours. As the supplies ran low, everyone ran to top-off their tanks. It was a strange sensation, not panic, but a real feeling of unease. We are so spoiled.
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09-24-2008, 10:32 PM
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Imagine the effect of gas being gone permanently...
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09-25-2008, 12:28 AM
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How about the prices? Did they go up, or stay consistent?
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09-25-2008, 01:08 AM
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Better make nice to Hugo Chavez.
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09-25-2008, 01:22 AM
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everyone ran to top-off their tanks.
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09-25-2008, 02:11 AM
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Welcome to the future, you just got a glimpse..
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09-25-2008, 05:27 AM
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How about the prices? Did they go up, or stay consistent?
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The price went up some, .05 a gallon. But it went up everywhere. Merchants could have taken advantage of people, but didn't.
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Yuppies? Who still says that? Good old OX, charging headlong into the 80's.
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09-25-2008, 06:22 AM
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Regardless, the hidden point of my remark was that there are no old codgers rushing about filling their tanks.
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09-25-2008, 06:28 AM
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My grandpa was freaking out about filling up on gas because he thought it was going to shoot up in price and/or become unavailable. And he's actually quite smart, just getting old and letting TV influence him.
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09-25-2008, 06:30 AM
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Regardless, the hidden point of my remark was that there are no old codgers rushing about filling their tanks.
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It wasn't hidden OX, just not worth comment; mainly because it's not true. Everyone was in on the grab. In fact, there was one old gentleman who though it perfectly fine to wash his windshield, despite the fact that there were cars lined up for a 1/4 mile behind him. This was the only rude display I witnessed.
Why don't you apply some of this wild imagination to your writing instead of constantly asking everyone else how they come up with ideas?
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09-25-2008, 07:40 AM
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there was one old gentleman who though it perfectly fine to wash his windshield, despite the fact that there were cars lined up for a 1/4 mile behind him.
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09-25-2008, 07:42 AM
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Oops, sorry, showing my age again. Modern cars don't need their water checked, do they?
Last edited by The Backward OX : 09-25-2008 at 07:45 AM.
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09-25-2008, 08:47 AM
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You're likely thinking of horses. They do need water and air. Not sure about the oil though.
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Last edited by JosephB : 09-25-2008 at 08:59 AM.
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09-25-2008, 02:56 PM
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Nor would they need gasoline.
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09-26-2008, 01:11 AM
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Yuppies? Who still says that? Good old OX, charging headlong into the 80's.
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Hey Joseph
There’s, like, this guy Gregg Hurwitz and he’s a novelist. He’s just had his latest - I SEE YOU – published. Like, last year. 2007, that is. ISBN 978 1 40741 327 3, if you’re interested.
And he says in, like, Chapter 13:
“Imports like the rest of us, palms had been brought to Los Angeles centuries ago by Spanish missionaries. I’d read that they were dying out here, the latest wave nearing the end of their hundred-year life spans. Local bureaucracies had determined that broad-canopy trees better fought auto emissions. Vegas casinos had driven prices beyond municipal reach. Falling fronds bugged the yuppies, scratched up their Mini Coopers.”
So blow that up against your duck-house wall.
Last edited by The Backward OX : 09-26-2008 at 01:14 AM.
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