For me, it always comes back to the price of a gallon of gas...as a courier, I have to keep the that 20 gal tank topped up for the out of town runs...I usually do it at the local Kroger fuel place, where I get a .10/gal discount, but a couple of weeks ago I got caught out in the boonies tipping over near the "E"...stopped at a Pilot station, where they have a $50 limit on Visa transactions, & for the first time it actually was an issue...the guage said my tank was full, but the pump shut off at the dollar mark before it hit the overflow valve.

The housing/credit crisis has brought my band to a halt as well...our guitar player's wife does home loans on commission, & she hasn't had a lick of business lately, so he has to work 16 hour days, 7 days a week just to pay his house note...

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