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      12-18-2020, 08:45 PM   #1497
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I remember when gas hit $1.00/gallon for the first time and the price on the pumps only went up to $0.99. The had to charge by 1/2 gallon.
I worked the overnight shift at a gas station with mechanical pumps at the time. The corporate pricing computers were playing games with the nearby competitors, and didn't think twice about dropping the price to $0.999 and then back up to $1.009 every other night. Not that the corporate computer cared, but that meant that I had to go out to the pumps at 3:00 AM and swap out the gear sets every time the price went above/below a buck. Wasted a half hour of my life every single night for weeks until the competition went up to $1.029.....
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      12-18-2020, 08:48 PM   #1498
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When you remember that the 246 Dino which now cost $450K+ is the one you begged your parents and would have only cost $4995 in 1982.
...and, let's be honest, would have been wrapped around a telephone pole by 1983 if they let you buy it.....
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...and, let's be honest, would have been wrapped around a telephone pole by 1983 if they let you buy it.....
I take exception to this remark. I haven't wrap any car around a telephone pole in 1983 or any other year. It was tree. In 1984.
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I take exception to this remark. I haven't wrap any car around a telephone pole in 1983 or any other year. It was tree. In 1984.
I stuffed my dad's '68 BMW 1600 head-on into a tree back in 1969. He was. not amused!
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I stuffed my dad's '68 BMW 1600 head-on into a tree back in 1969. He was. not amused!
Oh boy...
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If any of you had been good students, you would have been allowed to crank the ditto for the teacher!!! Gateway, baby

cmyx6go be careful shoveling snow. We'd hate to hear you slip and break a hip

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When you remember when gas was under 75 cents a gallon.
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When you remember when gas was under 75 cents a gallon.
Well, I remember what a gallon of gasoline was 35 cents a gallon. I even remember when the gas station attendant cleaned your windshield, checked the oil and put air in the tires. Heh!
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Well, I remember what a gallon of gasoline was 35 cents a gallon. I even remember when the gas station attendant cleaned your windshield, checked the oil and put air in the tires. Heh!
haha, I remember when 35 cents was high. I was just a kid, but I remember 29 cents and they gave you shit (like a glass) to buy a tank of gas.
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Well, I remember what a gallon of gasoline was 35 cents a gallon. I even remember when the gas station attendant cleaned your windshield, checked the oil and put air in the tires. Heh!
And you probably remember gas branded as "Ethyl," which was short for tetraethyl lead. And high-octane versions labeled "Hi-Test."

My grandpa was super fussy about his cars. He always told the gas station attendants not to mess with the windshield, because he feared they'd use the same rag on it that they had just used to wipe off the dipstick.
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And you probably remember gas branded as "Ethyl," which was short for tetraethyl lead. And high-octane versions labeled "Hi-Test."

My grandpa was super fussy about his cars. He always told the gas station attendants not to mess with the windshield, because he feared they'd use the same rag on it that they had just used to wipe off the dipstick.
Yes I remember all the gas stations starting to sell lead free gas. Cars had "Unleaded Gas Only" written on the dash by the gas tank gage.
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Yes I remember all the gas stations starting to sell lead free gas. Cars had "Unleaded Gas Only" written on the dash by the gas tank.
Yup, started with the '75 models. And the filler necks were made smaller so you couldn't get a leaded gas nozzle into them.
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And you probably remember gas branded as "Ethyl," which was short for tetraethyl lead. And high-octane versions labeled "Hi-Test."

My grandpa was super fussy about his cars. He always told the gas station attendants not to mess with the windshield, because he feared they'd use the same rag on it that they had just used to wipe off the dipstick.
Long before I bought my first car, I thought Ethyl was the station owners wife.
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haha, I remember when 35 cents was high. I was just a kid, but I remember 29 cents and they gave you shit (like a glass) to buy a tank of gas.
The price of gasoline here in California is usually higher than anywhere else.
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I used to ferry friends around in high school because a bunch of them didn't have wheels and their parents were off at work. They'd pay me a dime or a quarter, which more than paid for the gas I used.
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I used to ferry friends around in high school because a bunch of them didn't have wheels and their parents were off at work. They'd pay me a dime or a quarter, which more than paid for the gas I used.
My older sister did that!
She wasn't supposed to charge us since it was the 'family car', but she threatened that if we told the 'rents we would be walking everywhere.

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cmyx6go be careful shoveling snow. We'd hate to hear you slip and break a hip

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Uncle- I’m proud to say my wrists hurt the most. I was very conscious of making sure I lifted with my legs and not my back. I done good. I just need my nephew to walk me through starting the damn snow blower and I’ll be good for next snow. I did take out the manual to figure how to use the blower but my fucking eyesight sucks and it pissed me off needing my readers to read the manual and then I couldn’t see the stupid icons for the controls on the blower. Get off my lawn.
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Get off my lawn.
So I take it that you didn't like the snow angel that UncleWede made on your lawn?????
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So I take it that you didn't like the snow angel that UncleWede made on your lawn?????
The angel was fine I'm sure, it was the yellow snow....
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