When this 2000 cartoon appeared on the Web site in 2008, gas prices were hovering around $4 per gallon. In recent weeks, gas prices fell to near the $1.69 price that flabbergasts Arlo above, and drivers were elated. Perspective is everything, no? The situation depicted here is totally factual; as a boy I loved raiding the “service stations” for bundles of maps, and most of them never complained. On a tangent, I went into a Shell station yesterday looking for a bottle of bleach. (Why isn’t relevant.) Almost the entire store, and this was a sizeable one, was devoted to snacks! I know this comes as no revelation to you, but it is brought home when one searches for quotidian inedibles. No wonder we’re getting fat.
88 responses to “Very Tiny”
Dickens the Adventure Dog and are having dinner at QT convenience store, 290 calorie southwestern chicken sandwich, hummus and raw veggie dip. He got almost all the cheese and about half the sandwich.
Halfway between Dallas and Waco, noticing mile markers all the way. Garmin got me thru Dallas just fine. Dallas starts 50 miles north and ends 50 miles south.
Mmmm, Jackie, the sandwich sounds good. Dickens is a lucky dog!
Last time I used Mrs. Garmin, the one with the neat Brit accent, wife drove the Prius off the road into a mail box on a metal post. $5m+, and several weeks w/ only the Camry.
On an earlier trip in Mpls. I was in Mpls. driving us S. on a street W. of Lake Harriet, with a stone wall on my right and a road teeing in from the left, and Mrs. G. was urging, “Turn right! Turn right!” She’s been sitting in her little box ever since.
Peace, emb
Thanks Mark for explaining . Around here PU without punctuation is a common
usage.
It is a nice looking PU and as I frequently say “some day I will be dragged kicking and
screaming into the TWENTIETH century.”
I was told by the dealers that Henry’s & The Brother’s Company’s no longer make
plain cabs with 8′ beds on PUs- they are extended or double cabs and 6′ or less box.
I could have bought new with more (sort of) what I wanted but at 2X the cost.
And I bought from the outfit I bought my other truck in ’93 – They were the only
ones interested in looking for what I wanted (not what was on the lot) same as 22YA.
Good People.
I see lots of new names in the village as I catch up on comments tonight! Welcome, everybody.
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog…
Yes, a long day. But I did have dinner (a fried-tomato-and-shrimp po’ boy, if you are wondering) at an outside table at a dockside cafe at a marina, and I watched the sun set over the water. So I had that goin’ for me, which is nice.
Debbe 😉 Wished you were there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxLaHmOaYM
Well it is 3 a.m. and Dickens is asleep and I am leaping into tub, hope I stay awake. Got last room in La Quinta after doubling back off Texas newest toll road to the I-35 that Garmin took me off of and put me on under construction toll road to Austin where I paid nine bill you by mail tolls.
Do I smell collusion?
New word to me, just found in a crossword puzzle: pilcrow . Anyone know it without looking it up?
Good Morning Villagers….
Going to be a crispy weekend here in S IN…temps down to 28 degrees Saturday night…yikes!!
Yes, Nancy, so many new names in the Village….and I still want to know if John Connor’s mom is Sarah….maybe, he’ll be back 🙂
GR 😉 you had a very long day of traveling…..did you prearrange your travel music?
CxP…I know what a murder of crows is, but not pilcrow…so I’m going to have to cheat and look it up.
Leaving early today, yesterday morning I caught Mercury at the beginning of dawn. Sirius is getting brighter too..yes, Mark, autopilot and my mind does wonder. I just need to be watching out for those deer too.
Saw three coyotes way out in the field at work yesterday afternoon, and guess who just happened to have his shotgun….Skittles let one off and they scurried, One was a gray color. I hate hearing them howl at night, gives me the chills.
gotta go…ya’ll have a blessed dy
GR 😉 tried to copy and paste an oldie, “Sunrise, Sunset” by Perry Cumo, but it’s such sad song, so I didn’t……try and catch up on your sleep…..
Strip of 10.16.15:
Hmm… No husband foreseeable?
Danger! Danger, Janis Day! Unaccompanied female in neighborhood!
(Are we about to see a return to the former petty, jealous Janis?)
A Nony Mouse
Make sure there is no onion in that sandwich you share.
Not sure about dogs but for cats a no-no.
Debbe
Coyotes in area is why the Grand Kitties are kept in at night and why I worry
when any do “walk about”
Great cartoon & so true about maps back then. Ghost Rider 6′ thanks for the .25 cigarette pack in machines memory and for the Otis Redding song! :- ;