Saturday, May 17, 2008

The price of gas in Coquille.



Tootled downtown to purchase some "cool" food. Liter bottle of 7-UP, 4 yogurts, Rocky Road ice cream and a couple frozen dinners (Swedish meatballs). I stopped to top off the tank and took a picture of the latest gas raise. The attendant asked me if I was pretty full. I told him it was about 3/4 full so he manfully shoved 21 dollars worth of gas into the buggy. Feed back from Auto Clinic on buggy check up; the hood latch broke so he had to order another one, will get that installed next week. He looked at the spark plugs etc and said they were platinum (what EVER that means) and were good for 100k miles. Sweet! New air cleaner and the whole trip cost 44 bucks. Of course if any of us were at all mechanically inclined we could have saved the 30 dollars for 30 minutes of labor......

2 comments:

Gale said...

Sometimes you just have to pay a little to be safe.

FirstNations said...

holy smackamole. not that we're all affordable here, but DAAAAAANG. still, y'all have people who fill the tank for you, and once i got used to that again on my last visit down, i realized how much nicer it is. so thats something, i guess.

those blue flowers one post down are lithodora, and i loves them REAL GOOD. unfortunately the northeaster freezedries them to death for me every year so i have to enjoy pix of them instead. thanks!