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   Beaver Fever to Howard   
   Re: A rant directed at grocery store fue   
   30 Jan 21 13:45:38   
   
   From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 12:49:50 PM UTC-8, Howard wrote:   
   > Snidely  wrote   
   > > Not quite a response to this, but CostCo gas pumps often have lines of   
   > > 10 or so cars per lane. Price can motivate tolerance of   
   > > inconvenience.   
   > For my close ones it's not just the wait but the scrimmage for the pumps   
   > that can happen when people are approaching them from different sides, the   
   > dance where you have to pull around cars to get to a pump and you're not   
   > sure if someone else is going to pull out, the jams where people try to   
   > pull out of the part of the driveway where cars want to enter and nobody   
   > will yield....   
   >   
   > I will happily risk paying an extra buck and drive a few minutes farther to   
   > get to the station with better design if the closer stations get crowded.   
      
   Thanks for reminding me why I don't drive even tho it means I will die poor   
   and alone   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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