After today, I guess I should add sheep to the list of answers to the question “People Are”…
I dropped my daughter off at work this afternoon, and was initially taken aback at the traffic at the shopping center, then I saw the lines at the gas station, they occasionally do some big time discount, and I normally ignore it, unless I happen to be there etc… Well it was complete pandemonium lines of cars 15+ deep, because they had gasoline at $2.99 down from $3.35 a gallon. Now I estimate it was probably taking 3 to 5 minutes per car, so if you do the math, you’re looking at close to an hour wait to save about $4.00 based on the average person puts in about 10 gallons when they gas up (Or at least used to)…
Considering that people working fast-food are making $6+ per hour, I am trying to figure out where the savings are… My logic says that if you make $6 per hour, and you wait an hour to save $4 you have lost $2 in income, and and hour of your life that you will never get back…
So now it is past 10 at night, My daughter is home from work, and guess what people are still waiting in line, well there are only 3 or 4 cars in each line…
I just got a live report from a neighbor, and my estimates where about right, he had 3 or 4 cars ahead of him and it took about 10-12 minutes for him to get to the pump. I was giving him a hard time, but he said he needed gas anyways, and he was already there… So I didn’t give him too much of a hard time…
Quit being sheep…