Toyomafia - The Clubhouse. 151.880

Flavor saver…

 

we'll take it.

 

Too late, it's gone.

 

Your Costco has an in and out? Lucky….

 

If we are being technical, it's across the street

 

They are building one next to the new Costco near our house…as if the gas station lines weren’t long enough.

 

Not true...

 

White government vans are so yesterday...

Today, it's all about the tan Siennas

 

Gas......station.......lines? What is that?

 

It’s a Costco thing. When the gas is ~60¢ / gallon cheaper, there will be lines at peak times

 

Damn. That's quite a bit cheaper.

 

Might as well throw in a drive-thru Starbuckles while they’re at it.

 

You kids are too young to remember this.
There were 2 shortages in the 1970s...
I started driving in 1978 just in time for the shortage of 1979.

The History of Gas Shortages in the U.S.

 

Lived it.... was the kid wearing the Exxon Pin Stripes carrying the "Last car" sign and my calculator .....and why I was driving a '63 VW Bug...


More importantly, How the F@@K are you..... Done pissing stones ??? and started PT yet ??

 

There was a corner convenience store 100 yards down the street from us, and the queue for gas during the 79 shortage flowed in front of our house. People were so scared of someone cutting in line that they wouldn't let a 10' gap open between them and the car in front of them so my dad could get out of the driveway and go to work. They started selling gas in liters (when Jimmy Carter was trying to convert the country away from freedom units), and people thought they were getting a bargain until they found out how much gas it was(n't). Cats and dogs were living together... Mass Hysteria. I might be toeing the politics line, but in the past 4 years if OPEC had wanted to do it again, they could have. It'll be good to get back to energy independence.

 

My mom started driving in 1978. Hmmmmm...... Are you my Dad? Where were you in 1980?

 

I remember those days also. we were lucky wr had an even car and an odd car... but could not fill both together

 

I was a junior in High school in 1980

 

I graduated HS in 1980

 

I was -14 years old lol

 

You old f**k

 

Pretty sure my dad was already plotting how to abandon me in Canuckistan in 1980. It was 9 years early, but he's a planner like that.

 

yes

 

The good old days of Jimmy Carter and even or odd license plates..

I'm doing well, I love not going to work.
I started PT last week, my daughter is my PT assistant, we just had lunch.

I still haven't passed my kidney stone, I think it is sitting in my bladder.
I've been pissing in a cup for 2 weeks trying to get the stone so I can take it to my urologist.
I felt it moving down over the weekend, but it didn't hurt.
I don't think it will hurt when it comes out either.
It's allegedly only 3MM, I've passed bigger ones out with minimal pain.
I guess it depends on how jagged it is..

 

Me too.
Barely, but I did walk across the stage...

Hey, wait a minute..



Just with bad shoulders, bad knees, kidney and gall stones, and maybe a few hip issues...

 

I was working in a shipyard in 1980.

 

I was 3

 

I was working at Payless Cashways.
I was either loading customer vehicles in the lumber yard or in a huge metal building.
1980 was one of the hottest summers ever in Texas..

Digging through the archives: Summer of 1980 heat wave remains unmatched – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

But fear not, climate change is a new thing...