I went to fill up my full size, late 90’s sedan today and the person next to me had the gall to strike up a conversation about how high gas prices were reaching. Instead of punching this man in the throat to teach him a lesson about having conversations with strangers, I decided to let him continue. He went on to say that at this rate, we’d be paying $6 for a gallon of gas by the end of the year. Apparently this man has never taken a high school math course. Just for kicks, I told him that I lived in Denmark for a year and gas prices were already $6 a gallon and that I was happy gas was so cheap here in America. Like most people who rub me the wrong way, he gave me a dirty look, got back into his SUV, and went along his merry way.
Are you really going to gripe about a 5 cent increase in the price of gas? By the time you are done reading this article, you could have made enough money working to cover that 5 cent increase for a full tank of gas. Unless you are filling up a motorhome, you are complaining about an increase of between 60 cents and a dollar per fill up. I’m pretty sure I’d swallowed that much change by the time I turned 10 years old. I’ll also ignore the fact that if you are filling up a motorhome, a 5 cent increase in gas prices should be fairly low on your budgetary concerns. America is finally catching up to what the rest of the world has been paying for years and you are going to complain about it? You better hope that the next time you decide to talk to a stranger about high gas prices you don’t get a punch in your throat because it might just be me.
