It's around 1am and Manoj is driving through the streets of Redmond trying to check and fix the air pressure in his car's tyres. I go from gas station to gas station trying to find a machine he can use to accomplish my mission. I stop at the first and balk at the price of a gallon of gasoline - $2.54 the signboards read. I walk up to the air machine, fills air in one tyre - pressure checked, 30psi. As I drag the air cable to the next tyre, I find that the cable is too short. Turns out in the new world order, the cable doesn't move to the wheels, the wheels instead move to the cable. I would have to move my car back, forth and around to ensure that all tyres got adequate attention. I left thinking to myself, "There's gotta be another gas station with an air machine that I can use!"
NOT - I'm writing this to inform you that air for tyres is no longer free at 76 and Shell gas stations in America. And they insist on quarters - 50c for 3 minutes. No quarters, no air - so what if you get into an accident, so what if you get a flat - they don't care! So what's next on their charging list - using the restroom at a gas station or better still, a parking charge if you want to buy something at the convenience store - sheeshhh!!!
To be fair there is a cost associated with maintaining all the machinery you need for pumping air.
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of getting charged to go to the loo: that is actually fairly common practice in Delhi. In fact at the Delhi airport they charge you 5 rupees for luxury of using the "public" rest rooms.
-You know who.
And, since you're carpooling 3x a week now, you shouldn't need to put so much air in your tyres anymore ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd, since you're carpooling 3x a week now, you shouldn't need to put so much air in your tyres anymore ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd, since you're carpooling 3x a week now, you shouldn't need to put so much air in your tyres anymore ;)
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