Shades of 1973!

[bunrab]

Gas lines. The Shell station on our corner is $2.929 today for regular, but the one half a mile away is $2.849, so of course it's worth going there. Premium - which is what my bike requires - is higher but still the cheapest in town. So there were gas lines. People chatting while they waited. The cars are sleeker, and the people would look pretty funny to someone stuck in '73, especially those bluetooth phone things in the ear, but otherwise, it was a strangely familiar and sort of nostalgic experience. Anyway, I had run 222 miles exactly, on 3.235 gallons of gas. 66 mpg! Highway mileage is always fun! (Even squirrel_magnet's bike got 43 mpg according to today's fillup!)

What I was doing in 1973: dropping in and out of college, starting over as an accounting major in night school, working as a bookkeeper during the day, breaking up with a boyfriend and moving into a rooming house.

Comments

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen gas under $3 in months, except for my trip to Vermont a few weeks ago. Damn.

In 1973 I was in kindergarten :)

[curmudgn]

I've barely seen regular over$3, 'cept when I was outside a Texas. Filled up two days ago, regular at the BP on the interstate in Round Rock was $2.789.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Normally it's over $3 here - there are half a dozen local Shell stations that seem to be owned by the same franchise, that all have slightly cheaper prices than average most of the time, and all have a "5 cents per gallon discount every Thursday!" special, which is what resulted in these prices.

Kindergarten was probably a calmer place to be in 1973 than college was - there were still Vietnam war protests, bomb threats to the university administration, etc.

[bunnerabb.livejournal.com]

I would like to know how you arrived at your net nick. :)

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Hi! You're one of nentikobe's friends, right? And a fellow musician?
I've been BunRab since 1992, when I first signed on to AOL, back when it had less than a million members... the name is from the Pogo comic strip character, the one who carried around the bass drum and announced obscure holidays? Or is that before your time? Anyway, I have been a big fan of the strip since I was a small child, plus I love rabbits in general, and somehow they fell together when I was trying to pick a screen name no one else had, 14 - fourteen???? years ago, and I've been BunRab ever since. I even have people call me that in RL now. Really. When I run into other rabbit people, we usually have to establish some kind of convention - OK, her over there, she's Buni, I'm Bun, he's Rabbit...

[(Anonymous)]

And yours? Rabbit fan?

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that last was me, asking how you arrived at your SN. Don't know how I accidentally got logged out!