{"id":189,"date":"2005-12-06T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/a-trip-to-the-gas-station\/"},"modified":"2005-12-06T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T13:47:00","slug":"a-trip-to-the-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/06\/a-trip-to-the-gas-station\/","title":{"rendered":"a trip to the gas station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to stop for gas last night after work &#8211; and I passed up a couple of stations on the way so that I could go to the one I usually go to.   Which was cool since the &#8220;regular&#8221; station had cheaper gas than the others in the area.   Of course, everyone else knew that and it was chaos to get in there and get to the pumps.   I got in line and I&#8217;m sitting there waiting.   I don&#8217;t really want to move since there are so many cars going a lot of differnt directions and I didn&#8217;t want to add to the confusion.   Since the woman in front of me has gone inside to pay for her gas &#8211; and apparently rewallpaper the building since it took her so long, I decided to pull around her to the only open spot in the place.  Though, this will entail me going in reverse which I don&#8217;t like doing.<\/p>\n<p>I finally get into place, get out of my car and go to fill up my tank&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And I realize that the gas tank is on the other side of my car.    Embarassed, annoyed, cranky and irate at myself &#8211; I get back in my car and leave the station.   I go down the road to a nearly empty station (with slightly higher prices) and get $15.00 worth of slightly more expensive gas.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve owned my car for several years now and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve even done that before.  I&#8217;m going to blame it on the frustruation of the crowd, but it could just be that I&#8217;m slightly stupid.<\/p>\n<p>And on that note&#8230;back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-113387777126214555?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to stop for gas last night after work &#8211; and I passed up a couple of stations on the way so that I could go to the one I usually go to. Which was cool since the &#8220;regular&#8221; station had cheaper gas than the others in the area. Of course, everyone else knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}