O/T: Today Is A good Day

A few billion pennies a day - useless?

WOW! That's a lot of candles. How old are you ? ;~)

Good for you Lew! May you have just as many more.

Were you in California then too?

I absolutely recall Regular being as low as 19.9 for regular in 1972 in Corpus Christi and Premium being in the 30's all over Texas.

Lew Hodgett wrote the following on 7/23/2012 3:45 PM (ET):

HB. You got 4 months and change on me.

It would make more sense to require an EKG upon renewal. NY just did away with the vision test upon renewal last year. Now we can renew by mail or online every 6 years. The photo on the license is also a joke. I haven't a new photo taken since 1998 when I was 60 YOA. I don't even recognize myself in the photo. :-)

------------------------------- NE Ohio

Lew

LOL, I recall driving into the Shamrock station, asking for 10 gallons of regular gas, handing the attendant $2, and getting a penny back in change. That penny came out of the change maker hooked on his belt.

The first time you have to show up. After that it's all done on the Internet. Are you saying that Obamacare will be done over the Internet? Cool! Uh, how does surgery work?

More useless government meddling.

Tenths of pennies, they're "giving" you.

------------------------------------- And the minimum wage was either $0.50/HR, $0.75/HR, or $1.00/HR, depending on the year.

I worked for all of them.

Lew

Maybe in 55, My first PT job in high school in 72 paid $1.75 per hour.

I think the cutoff for online renewal is 79 here in Texas ... the heat desiccates and preserves us, and we appear younger, even when we're dead.

With the competition from across the street on most corners with stations, I could pretty well fill up my '49 Willy Jeepster for four or five bucks, get a few extra drops out of the nozzle for my Zippo, and score an aluminum "glass" to boot.

And didn't even have to get out of the seat ...

Happy birthday, hope it was a memorable one!

Not meaning to rain on your parade but I feel duty bound to inform you that it doesn't get better. I speak from experience.

" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I had to re-appear in person a few years back, because of the shift to more "secure" licenses. My first appearance in NJ DMV was 1998, and that license was NOT "secure".

I know you can read better than that. But indeed aspects of Obamacare will likely be via internet (billing?). Any doctor worth her or his Medicare reimbursement will use internet.

Begrijp ik niet.

I remember "gas wars", where the stations would lower their price to grab some action. Lowest I recall was .09. And you got green stamps or a free glass with a fill up.

There was a free market then.

Those days are long gone.

----------------------------------- I've always believed that you wake up, roll both legs over the edge of the bed, both tootsies touch the floor, and both lungs are working, you have a shot at another day.

Anything else is bonus money.

Lew

Yes, that's what we're talking about.

So what? That's done today.

You shouldn't post while drinking.

" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

snicker