Someone bought five dollars in gas before I arrived

Maybe they filled a gas can for a mower.

 

I'm just waiting for the day to come when people start siphoning gas from parked cars like they did in the 70s. Actually, come to think of it, someone did siphon gas from parked cars in Albuquerue when prices shot up over $3 last fall.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gilahiker @ Apr 10 2006, 03:53 PM) [snapback]237656[/snapback]</div>

This would be a great time to get that 'finger print recognition locking gas cap' company going....

h34r:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Apr 10 2006, 12:58 PM) [snapback]237663[/snapback]</div>

Nooooo.... ER is going to be filled with people getting their fingers chopped off to steal gas... :lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(naterprius @ Apr 10 2006, 03:40 PM) [snapback]237645[/snapback]</div>

This is a good point, and I'm not sure. Public transport and affordable housing close to jobs must be the answer. In most areas, like mine, the affordable housing is far from the city center and job centers, which is part of the reason I currently have a 20 mile commute, and I'm firmly in the middle class. I don't know what someone on minimum wage would do.

 

I like Squid' s suggestion better...all that blood on your car...ick

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dipper @ Apr 10 2006, 04:00 PM) [snapback]237666[/snapback]</div>

:lol:

Exactly, which is why YOU can start a sugical company that specializes in such, complete with new tools and procedures! It's a win-win!

Or, a prostetic (sp?) company that specializes in fingers!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Apr 10 2006, 02:06 PM) [snapback]237677[/snapback]</div>

No, no not a prosthetics company specializing in fingers...wouldn't that defeat the purpose? There'd be no pain from the prosthetics being chopped off...okay, now I'm thinking too weird for me!

 

How do you define "working class"? Where I live cops make $100,000 a year and teachers pretty close to that. So a married couple of cops or teachers are bringing in $200,000 - a bit more than minimum wage, I think.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(naterprius @ Apr 10 2006, 01:30 PM) [snapback]237703[/snapback]</div>

What a clear mind!! Seems like a very rational approach to me.

 

Yesterday the guy next to me in his giant SUV bought $10 worth of gas. Less than 3 gallons. I didn't make any snide remarks, but hope he lives nearby the gas station.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Apr 10 2006, 04:26 PM) [snapback]237702[/snapback]</div>

Teachers making $100K? It happens, but only with tons of tenure. The median salary for a HS teacher in Nassau County is almost exactly $50K.

 

Working class = $5-$12/hr workers, generally working 40hrs/week, living paycheck to paycheck just to maintain basic expenses.

 

I put $5 in my jeep yesterday... with what was in the tank it gives me just enough to make it to work today and tomorrow and then to roll into the Toyota dealership on E when I get my new Prius <grins>.

 

Maybe he was just filling up his Motorcycle. (______ rocket edited for purposes of decency)

 

I've seen lots of times where the amount is $5 or $10 (I live near a university). Last time the gas was this high I saw someone with a performance car doing a 50/50 with regular and premium.

 

People that live in the city and can't afford the high price of gas or a new car can drive a Scooter or a Moped. There already aren't enough parking spaces so maybe if more people drove scooters it would be helping more than 1 problem.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gilahiker @ Apr 10 2006, 12:53 PM) [snapback]237656[/snapback]</div>

Reminds me of a funny story about a neighbor a few houses away when I was a kid in the '70s. He was an old retired Army officer. He had is daily routines to keep himself “busy and healthy.†He kept an immaculate house, yard, car, wife, and apparently financial records too. Nice guy to have as a neighbor. He was friendly to everyone (even us kids who would run across his lawn while playing tag) and he watched out for the neighborhood.

He had noticed the gas mileage of his newish 1975 Cadillac El Dorado convertible all of the sudden drop considerably, so he took it into the dealer to have it checked. They found nothing wrong.
Several months later in the Springtime, he had noticed the gas mileage drop doubled, so he took the car back in and complained. This time the dealer found a problem, but it was not with the car itself - he had done all the regular maintenance and everything checked-out just fine . . . except for - and they had to take him back into the service bay to show him while the car was still on the hoist - It seemed that someone had installed a tap valve into his gas tank from underneath the car.

To make a long story shorter, it turned out to be the 15 year old hoodlum kid that lived behind him. The parents allowed the kid to ride his dirt bike whenever and wherever he wanted . . . but he had to pay for his own gas. This kid never did anything the right way, so why bother paying when you can get your gas for free from the big rolling gas can over the back fence?

The old man ended up with several good pictures of the kid crawling through loosened fence boards with a gas can in hand. With the pictures and immaculate records, he had the kid arrested on felony charges.

We never saw the kid again. The dirt bike was sold, and the old man was reimbursed for the gas and a new tank. The kid's family moved away a few months later. We never heard exactly what happened to the little hoodlum.

Apparently siphoning was just too slow a process for this criminal mastermind. Unfortunately for him, it was his greed, and better dirt biking weather which was his undoing . . . He needed twice the gas.