Reasons I Hate George W. Bush #329 and #329 (subsection 1):

[constance]

Today, for the first time ever, I paid more than two dollars a gallon for gas.

I was reading a profile of a ten-year-old boy named Colin Duffy the other night, and in it he guessed that the best thing about being an adult was that you could drive, and this meant that you could get in your car any time at all and drive to the store to buy candy. When I read this, I thought to myself, You know what? Being able to drive to get candy any time you want--well, it might not be the absolute best-with-a-cherry-on-top thing about being a grownup, but it's way up there. Until now. From now on, every time I hop in my car to drive the five miles to the nearest store that sells candy, I will be thinking, Just how much money is it going to cost me this time???

I have news for you, Colin Duffy. Sometimes, being a grownup just sucks, and not even unlimited access to candy makes it better.

Comments

[alkaloid.livejournal.com]

>:[ DUDE.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

>:o That's really fucked up, right there.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

You know, I often celebrate the easy access to candy, probably because I still recall so clearly the my perilous adventure of sneaking out of the house with a fistful of nickels to walk four blocks and cross two busy streets to get to the convenience store. (And then getting busted later- a pox upon ye, watermelon wacky wafers, for making my tongue day-glo red!)

These gas prices, though, are seriously depressing. I almost got into an accident today, rubbernecking at a sign that had THREE as the first number in a gas price. It was full-serve, but man. I see that road trip I'm lusting after disappearing in a puff of exhaust.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

THREE DOLLARS HOLY SHIT DUDE

I made the same treacherous trip! We mostly went for icees, though, or cokes, because it was Louisiana and HOT, and because the drugstore where we bought them had an ancient machine! Bottles for ten cents! And you had to drink them there because you had to leave them for return! Man, compared to the sheer glamour of drinking a coke, candy paled by comparison.

Still, Pixy Sticks and BottleCaps and candy cigarettes, oh my!

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

Word. I pass a gas station on my way home every day where gas, REGULAR UNLEADED GAS, is up to $2.21 a gallon. Granted, it is a gas station out in the middle of nowhere, so people who have to stop there are going to pay that price regardless, but. $2.21! That is FOUR CANDY BARS.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. OR YOU COULD BUY, LIKE, A WHOLE BAG OF HEATH BAR MINIATURES AND EAT YOURSELF SICK ON THEM, OR TWO BOXES OF BOTTLECAPS.

I need to move to a neighborhood again where I can walk to a store to satisfy a craving.

[coco-palmolive.livejournal.com]

Last summer in San Francisco, regular unleaded was going for 2.35 a gallon. The only thing that made it okay was that California cars -- and maybe I was imagining this -- seem to get about 30 percent better gas mileage than the ones I am used to.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Well, it was California, that mythical faraway land where the gas prices are always outrageous. But I! Am in the Deep South! Land of Cheap Gas! AND IT IS STILL TWO DOLLARS A GALLON!!!!!!

[miraminx.livejournal.com]

I blame Halliburton and Dick Cheney, myself. Oh, and let's not forget Karl "SATAN" Rove. GW's just their mindless minion.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

How very true. Ah, Dick, the most dangerous man in America, now that John Ashcroft is gone, and very possibly even before.

[miraminx.livejournal.com]

Also, I just picked up a copy of Uncut Magazine because there is a long article (with never before seen photos!) about Big Star. My scanner's not that good, but if you're interested, I could make color copies of the article and send it to you. Just let me know.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES PLEASE :D:D:D:D

Shall I email you my address??

*suddenly confused*

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Or did you want to scan it and email it?

Re: *suddenly confused*

[miraminx.livejournal.com]

No, sorry, I wasn't very clear there, was I? I meant: if I scan it and email it to you, you'll be able to see the photos but not read the text. So I thought I would just go to Kinko's and make color photocopies so you could have the photos and be able to read the story, too.

But I remembered that you work in a bookstore, so maybe they carry this magazine and you don't need me at all. Sniff.

Anyway, if you want, just email me your address and I'll make the copies and mail it to you. I won't get to it until Monday or Tuesday, though.

miraminx @ yahoo.com