psyshack
04-22-2008, 10:07 PM
Thought today would be a great day to get back into my groove. Sounded good.
It started out bad. I had to fill up this am. Not good. So Im filling up and the cell starts ringing. The wife calls to inform me a Doc. appointment has changed to today. Then my boss calls and we have a issue on a job site. I tell him I have to go to a doc. appointment. People get mad from that point. I then get called into the gas station. The owner wanted to speak with me about the death of there son last week. I go in the station. Talk with the owner. The pump clicks off. I decline the top off I do all the time. ( mistake ) Run out of the station. Cell rings again. I forget the gas nozzle stuck in the car. Hang up the phone and drive off with the nozzle in the car. End result. Busted fuel pump, dent in my car and gas on the ground. I was able to fix the fuel pump and clean up the gas spill. And only kick myself for the dent put in the car. Nozzle 1 psy 0.
So I then start on my way to work. Leaving out of town Ive got the car in the low to mid 40 mpg range. Felt good. Once down the road a bit farther there should be some good numbers to look at. Im at my target 55 to 57 mph. Aww the groove is coming back. Then I almost get rear ended by somebody. Not once but three times. It becomes very clear to me traffic is moving 75 to 90 mph. People are being insane. Doesn't matter if there in a PII or a 1 ton truck. Everybody is off there rocker. End result,,,, I had to dive to the shoulder three times to keep from getting rear ended. Once all the way to the grass. I thought, " this is to damn much to deal with " So I bumped my speed up to the limit of 65 mph. Still being passed like I was walking backwards on the hwy. Then a SUV came screaming around me and a State Trooper saw it coming at us. The Suv almost clipped me. The Trooper jammed on the brakes flipped it around and came after the person. Flagged me over also. He asked if I was OK and wanted to know if the SUV driver did clip me. She hadn't so he then wrote her up for 90 mph. I asked him if he was seeing all the overt speeding I was seeing. He said yes. But he can only stop so many. And admitted. Folks don't care. I then had to leave work. Take the wife to a Doc. appointment, then to a lab for some blood work then over to a MRI place to get paper work, ins. and other stuff worked out. Then back to work. Then over to the belly of the beast to drop off a quote for a large pump order for a new co-gen plant expansion at a local hospital. Then Home.
34 mpg for the day. The only way folks around here are going to slow down. Is if there is a full on economic melt down at a level the USA has never seen.
They had a issue over the weekend with a country boy trying to crack his own crude oil. Its my understanding the cops thought he was cooking meth. When in fact its rumored he was trying to crack crude. and with all the oil wells around here. That will happen more often. and it has happened in the past from what the old timers have said in the great depression times.
So my earth day sucked. Couldn't even hold my head high as a hypermiler. And any green component I might have had ended when the gas pump nozzle stayed in the car and didn't go back on the pump. :(
It started out bad. I had to fill up this am. Not good. So Im filling up and the cell starts ringing. The wife calls to inform me a Doc. appointment has changed to today. Then my boss calls and we have a issue on a job site. I tell him I have to go to a doc. appointment. People get mad from that point. I then get called into the gas station. The owner wanted to speak with me about the death of there son last week. I go in the station. Talk with the owner. The pump clicks off. I decline the top off I do all the time. ( mistake ) Run out of the station. Cell rings again. I forget the gas nozzle stuck in the car. Hang up the phone and drive off with the nozzle in the car. End result. Busted fuel pump, dent in my car and gas on the ground. I was able to fix the fuel pump and clean up the gas spill. And only kick myself for the dent put in the car. Nozzle 1 psy 0.
So I then start on my way to work. Leaving out of town Ive got the car in the low to mid 40 mpg range. Felt good. Once down the road a bit farther there should be some good numbers to look at. Im at my target 55 to 57 mph. Aww the groove is coming back. Then I almost get rear ended by somebody. Not once but three times. It becomes very clear to me traffic is moving 75 to 90 mph. People are being insane. Doesn't matter if there in a PII or a 1 ton truck. Everybody is off there rocker. End result,,,, I had to dive to the shoulder three times to keep from getting rear ended. Once all the way to the grass. I thought, " this is to damn much to deal with " So I bumped my speed up to the limit of 65 mph. Still being passed like I was walking backwards on the hwy. Then a SUV came screaming around me and a State Trooper saw it coming at us. The Suv almost clipped me. The Trooper jammed on the brakes flipped it around and came after the person. Flagged me over also. He asked if I was OK and wanted to know if the SUV driver did clip me. She hadn't so he then wrote her up for 90 mph. I asked him if he was seeing all the overt speeding I was seeing. He said yes. But he can only stop so many. And admitted. Folks don't care. I then had to leave work. Take the wife to a Doc. appointment, then to a lab for some blood work then over to a MRI place to get paper work, ins. and other stuff worked out. Then back to work. Then over to the belly of the beast to drop off a quote for a large pump order for a new co-gen plant expansion at a local hospital. Then Home.
34 mpg for the day. The only way folks around here are going to slow down. Is if there is a full on economic melt down at a level the USA has never seen.
They had a issue over the weekend with a country boy trying to crack his own crude oil. Its my understanding the cops thought he was cooking meth. When in fact its rumored he was trying to crack crude. and with all the oil wells around here. That will happen more often. and it has happened in the past from what the old timers have said in the great depression times.
So my earth day sucked. Couldn't even hold my head high as a hypermiler. And any green component I might have had ended when the gas pump nozzle stayed in the car and didn't go back on the pump. :(