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My Dad had in ground diesel and gas at the house. I remember when I was little throwing stones at the dinosaur on the Sinclair pumps glass globe, broke a couple but they replace them free. I think gas was about .20/gal delivered around the time I started to steal from the pump.

After my Dad died in 2000 I was cleaning out the attic in the garage and found a new Sinclair Dino globe still in the box. Maybe I broke more than I remember and he was getting replacements two at a time:rolleyes::D...I'm sorry Dad.
 
Speaking of throwing stones...I remember when I was quite small throwing stones at the drivers window on one of Dad's dump trucks. I finally hit it, it shattered. When my Dad spotted the window he asked if I knew anything about how it got broke...I told him Dolly did it, Dolly was our horse.

It all made sense to me at the time, I wasn't trying to break the window, I was just trying to hit it, just like throwing stones at the dinosaur on the gas pump globe. As for Dolly, she was just a horse, they'd probably do things like that, how's a horse supposed to know that it's not OK to break a window. My Dad laughed when he heard my explanation, he didn't spank me so I was sure he believed me, and I wondered what he'd do to poor Dolly.

Just think that same boy today, with that imagination, some unique logic....that kid could say something that results in his pecker chopped off and be wearing a dress, confused forever after wondering what even happened. It's dangerous times to be a kid.:eek:
 
Woody said:
Speaking of throwing stones...I remember when I was quite small throwing stones at the drivers window on one of Dad's dump trucks. I finally hit it, it shattered. When my Dad spotted the window he asked if I knew anything about how it got broke...I told him Dolly did it, Dolly was our horse.

It all made sense to me at the time, I wasn't trying to break the window, I was just trying to hit it, just like throwing stones at the dinosaur on the gas pump globe. As for Dolly, she was just a horse, they'd probably do things like that, how's a horse supposed to know that it's not OK to break a window. My Dad laughed when he heard my explanation, he didn't spank me so I was sure he believed me, and I wondered what he'd do to poor Dolly.

Just think that same boy today, with that imagination, some unique logic....that kid could say something that results in his pecker chopped off and be wearing a dress, confused forever after wondering what even happened. It's dangerous times to be a kid.:eek:
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Kids….

My buddy and I were playing Karate and I thought it would be a good idea to Karate kick my bedroom door. Our old house in OH had those cheap hollowed panels doors. Well, my 10 year old foot went right through. Being smart and but unsure of my awesome Karate kick strength in front of my friend, I kicked it again and put another hole in it.
This was an ass kicking for sure so I had to make it look like an accident.

I decided my excuse would be that while moving the old HiFi speakers to my room, so Billy and I could listen to music, I dropped the speaker and it put the holes in the door. Of course the speaker had to look like it was damaged, so I took the speaker outside and scrapped and scratch the wood on the driveway. o_O

Long of the short - he didn’t buy it and now I purposefully damaged two things. I didn’t get my ass whooped (miracle), however I got to look at my stupidity for two years until we moved and the door was replaced.
 
Woody said:
The Saudis and others are cutting production for the rest of the year. The squeeze is being put on the US, I wonder if we have a means to respond anymore, with depleted refinery capacity, depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserves. There'll be no question of higher fuel prices/and everything else now.
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You would think this administration would have to / want to do something seeing in 1.5 years there will be an election. However this administration is IMO can care less. Pushing global warming initiatives is their new fiat. Abundant affordable energy makes it difficult to put the thumb on we serfs.

Speaking of elections, don’t forget to vote tomorrow. ;)
 
Pirate Lady said:
Back during the OPEC shortage in the 70s, gas lines, odd even days. I worked at a Shell station. All the gas i wanted whenever i wanted it. Good Times!
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I remember that. I was too young to need to buy gas but remember my mother and remembering that if your license plate ended in an odd number you could get gas on certain days and even numbers on certain days
 
OllieC said:
You would think this administration would have to / want to do something seeing in 1.5 years there will be an election. However this administration is IMO can care less.
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Nah...this is their pla. Drive it up to $7/gallon then a few months before elections drop it to $5/gallon so everyone thinks they are great. That is their way. Screw you so bad that when they stop screwing us we thank them
 
OllieC said:
You would think this administration would have to / want to do something seeing in 1.5 years there will be an election. However this administration is IMO can care less. Pushing global warming initiatives is their new fiat. Abundant affordable energy makes it difficult to put the thumb on we serfs.

Speaking of elections, don’t forget to vote tomorrow. ;)
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What elections? Serious.
 
boatman37 said:
Nah...this is their pla. Drive it up to $7/gallon then a few months before elections drop it to $5/gallon so everyone thinks they are great. That is their way. Screw you so bad that when they stop screwing us we thank them
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boatman37 said:
I remember that. I was too young to need to buy gas but remember my mother and remembering that if your license plate ended in an odd number you could get gas on certain days and even numbers on certain days
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My wife's car and mine
boatman37 said:
I remember that. I was too young to need to buy gas but remember my mother and remembering that if your license plate ended in an odd number you could get gas on certain days and even numbers on certain days
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My wife and I had one car with an even number and the other with an odd number. If one really needed gas, I would switch the plates so that I could fill up. Thankfully I was never stopped by the police. I would have a hard time explaining.
 
WaveDancer01 said:
My wife's car and mine


My wife and I had one car with an even number and the other with an odd number. If one really needed gas, I would switch the plates so that I could fill up. Thankfully I was never stopped by the police. I would have a hard time explaining.
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Ha, the stuff we got away with, kids today would not believe. Cops all knew my dad. All they had to say was “want me to tell your father?” Oh dear god officer please dont.
One rookie actually went to my dads work and told him. Dumb ass. I got in so much trouble. Not for what i did, for some dumbass rookie cop bothering my dad at work.
Different times.
 
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Mowing lawns in the early Seventies; 39 cents a gallon. Remember when gas went to a dollar a gallon? We weren't sure how the pumps would work, since none of them had the ability to display more than 99.9 cents per gallon. The fix? Little "1" stickers in front of the regular price. I could drive across the state to college in my '66 Mustang for ten bucks. All of a sudden, it took twenty bucks to fill the tank. Of course, I was only making about $3.50 an hour wrenching on boats at the time.
 
Yep. Pretty sure I made $3.15/hour at my first job. I had newspaper jobs and crap but my first 'real' job was at a Ford dealership in 1989. My dad and uncle were both mechanics there so I worked there for a summer in the parts dept. Stocked shelves and delivered parts. At first they gave me a beat up 1981-ish F250 manual trans then they gave me a new Ranger. But the Ranger was rented from them to use in a movie they filmed here then when they got it back they used it for parts runs. Can't remember the movie it was in but it wasn't anything big...lol. IIRC the movie guys had an identical truck and it broke so they really needed an identical truck to finish filming so they were desperate...lol
 
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