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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.

NOT blech.

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You may be too young to remember the 70s *when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.

Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
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I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

Tim wrote:
On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"





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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.


NOT blech.


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You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.


Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

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I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

What is $5.00 get you back then? 10 gallons or so?

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Tim wrote:
On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"





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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.


NOT blech.


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You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.


Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

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I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

What is $5.00 get you back then? 10 gallons or so?

Nope got you about 5 gallons. I think the day that I really realized how
expensive gas was getting, was the day I filled up my 350 cc Kawasaki. 3.5
gallon tank and cost me a little over $5. Putting $25 in the van just did
not strike you as bad as $5 in a small motorcycle.

On 4/19/10 7:34 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:37 -0700 (PDT),
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On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"





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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.

NOT blech.

--
You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.

Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

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I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

I am sure Plume would be flirting with the gas station guy to try to
get an extra few gallons.
I do remember parking in the gas station in the middle of the night so
I would be there when they opened. I also had a odd/even permit so I
could get gas on either day.



We were a two car family in those days and had license plates that ended
in even and odd numbers. I don't remember being limited to $5 worth more
than once.

When I first started buying gasoline for my little boat, way back in the
1950s, it was 19 cents a gallon, and in Connecticut, you could apply for
a refund of the "road tax" on the product.

My father ran his diesel over the road delivery truck and his marina
hoist off of the fuel oil he used to heat his stores. It was three or
four cents cheaper than gasoline. At least that's what I remember. The
boat store hoist was built on the framework of a Model A truck...and had
a gasoline engine. I learned to drive on that truck and on an old
jeep...at 10 or 11 years old...driving around the boatyards but never on
the public roads.

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"





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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.

NOT blech.

--
You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.

Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

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I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

I am sure Plume would be flirting with the gas station guy to try to
get an extra few gallons.
I do remember parking in the gas station in the middle of the night so
I would be there when they opened. I also had a odd/even permit so I
could get gas on either day.



It would probably work. I'm a good flirter.

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Nom=de=Plume

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"





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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.

NOT blech.

--
You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.

Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

I am sure Plume would be flirting with the gas station guy to try to
get an extra few gallons.
I do remember parking in the gas station in the middle of the night so
I would be there when they opened. I also had a odd/even permit so I
could get gas on either day.


I owned a company with delivery trucks and we were exempt. Commercial
plates were exempt from the odd even. Was nice my pickup was exempt and
there was a station near my house that was sort of out of the way and wife
could normally fill up without a wait. The delivery trucks fueled at a
Cardlock station, so we could fill the family vehicles also 24/7. Biggest
problem was we had to get the drivers to put in a little more than they need
for the route, as we had lots of people deciding to climb the fence and
siphon gas. And steal batteries. Later we went to diesel delivery trucks,
which would have cut down on the theft.

On Apr 19, 9:23*pm, "Bill McKee" wrote:
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"

wrote:
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.

NOT blech.

--
You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.

Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

I am sure Plume would be flirting with the gas station guy to try to
get an extra few gallons.
I do remember parking in the gas station in the middle of the night so
I would be there when they opened. I also had a odd/even permit so I
could get gas on either day.

I owned a company with delivery trucks and we were exempt. *Commercial
plates were exempt from the odd even. *Was nice my pickup was exempt and
there was a station near my house that was sort of out of the way and wife
could normally fill up without a wait. *The delivery trucks fueled at a
Cardlock station, so we could fill the family vehicles also 24/7. *Biggest
problem was we had to get the drivers to put in a little more than they need
for the route, as we had lots of people deciding to climb the fence and
siphon gas. *And steal batteries. *Later we went to diesel delivery trucks,
which would have cut down on the theft.- Hide quoted text -

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Now they'll also steal the catalytic converters!

On Apr 20, 8:10*am, Loogypicker wrote:
On Apr 19, 9:23*pm, "Bill McKee" wrote:





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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"

wrote:
wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.

NOT blech.

--
You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.

Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

I am sure Plume would be flirting with the gas station guy to try to
get an extra few gallons.
I do remember parking in the gas station in the middle of the night so
I would be there when they opened. I also had a odd/even permit so I
could get gas on either day.

I owned a company with delivery trucks and we were exempt. *Commercial
plates were exempt from the odd even. *Was nice my pickup was exempt and
there was a station near my house that was sort of out of the way and wife
could normally fill up without a wait. *The delivery trucks fueled at a
Cardlock station, so we could fill the family vehicles also 24/7. *Biggest
problem was we had to get the drivers to put in a little more than they need
for the route, as we had lots of people deciding to climb the fence and
siphon gas. *And steal batteries. *Later we went to diesel delivery trucks,
which would have cut down on the theft.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Now they'll also steal the catalytic converters!- Hide quoted text -

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And aluminum rims. There's "easy-off" lug wrenches that will screw
themselves onto the locking lug from the outside and back it right
off.

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No cats on these trucks. F550 class trucks.



On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Apr 18, 12:45 am, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:15:47 -0700, "nom=de=plume"

wrote:
wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

The smell of diesel, the most masculine cologne.

NOT blech.

--
You may be too young to remember the 70s when guys would spritz a
little gasoline behind their ear in hopes a girl would think you
worked in a gas station.

Good grief... did any of them live?

Gee whiz ... nothing? not even a mercy LOL?
You must be too young to remember gas lines. ;-)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I remember them. Wait in lne for a hour so you could get $5.00 of gas
and that was the limit. And if you were lucky you could get gas before
the station ran out. It was rationed to them too!

I am sure Plume would be flirting with the gas station guy to try to
get an extra few gallons.
I do remember parking in the gas station in the middle of the night so
I would be there when they opened. I also had a odd/even permit so I
could get gas on either day.

I owned a company with delivery trucks and we were exempt. Commercial
plates were exempt from the odd even. Was nice my pickup was exempt and
there was a station near my house that was sort of out of the way and wife
could normally fill up without a wait. The delivery trucks fueled at a
Cardlock station, so we could fill the family vehicles also 24/7. Biggest
problem was we had to get the drivers to put in a little more than they
need
for the route, as we had lots of people deciding to climb the fence and
siphon gas. And steal batteries. Later we went to diesel delivery trucks,
which would have cut down on the theft.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Now they'll also steal the catalytic converters!