If Only The Price Matched The Pump
Posted May 23rd, 2006 at 9:26 pm in Odds and Ends
I didn’t mention it, but I actually ran home for a couple of days on Sunday and Monday. The timing worked out best that way.
While driving home, I stopped at a gas station with old time gas pumps. I mean really old time gas pumps. I don’t remember the last time I saw pumps like these, though the only gas station in Bakersfield, TX (Pecos County) has them.
While the pump may be old, it’s prices unfortunately are a sign of the times.
I’m old enough to remember the pumps that didn’t even have a place on the left of the decimal. When gas hit a dollar during the Arab oil emabargo of the ’70’s, stations in my small town posted the price for half a gallon.
Except for one, which kept charging 99.9 until they got their new pumps. (Must have lost a lot of money.)