The Downfall of Western Civilization

Someone with no manners, probably-didn’t-graduate-high-school, and having eaten mostly Twinkies for about 30 years?

For a minute, I thought you were talking about ME!

:)

Yeah.  It’s a convenient place to write down my mileage, so that later I can enter the mileage and volume into my fuel economy spreadsheet.  Plus, in 20 or 30 years when my kids start to drive, it’ll be fun to pull out the old receipts and say, "Back in 2005, gas was only $2.50 per gallon!"

Visualizing the scene was laugh-out-loud funny!  :)

I was at the Douglassville Wawa yesterday to get gas and coffee (of course) and while pumping the gas I noticed that three cars positioned at various pumps around me were empty of persons, either in the cars or pumping gas.  Now, the gas price was $2.25/gallon and there were lines of cars at each pump (you’d think Wawa was giving the gas away), people mostly patiently waiting.  My thought always is, why do these morons leave their cars and walk, mostly slowly, into the Wawa to pay for their gas purchase (and probably peruse the store for snacks, drinks, whatever) leaving those waiting in line to slowly, or fastly, come to the breaking point of losing their patience?  People do have schedules to keep, ya know and there is such a thing as common sense.

I brought this issue up with the worker bee at the counter inside the Wawa after I moved my car away from the pump and parked elsewhere (immediately after I finished pumping my gas, by the way (because now it was time for that simple pleasure of fresh Wawa coffee)).  He told me that they prefer that the cars remain at the pump because it is easier for the worker bees to keep track of who paid and who still owes for the gas that was pumped.  Ok, just to keep things ’easier’ for the worker bees, then how about creating a ’holding space’ one car length immediately ahead of where your car was positioned while pumping your gas.  That way the next person in line can start pumping his/her gas and you most likely will have the time to RUN in to pay for your gas and come back (without snack hunting inside) before that next person is finished pumping gas.  A person who is ’spreadsheet addicted’ would also benefit from using this ’holding space’ to take care of his/her (although I doubt many ’hers’ have this particular OCB) bookkeeping tasks.

Heaven knows I certainly could have used this ’holding space’ to slap down some very unruly kids back-in-the-day who were hitting, biting, kicking, screaming at each other.  But then again, back-in-the-day we didn’t have gas lines :)

Still lvu anyway.

:)

beastly lunatics, eh?
Hehehe, What a great description! : )