At last, a post that's not just photos...

[senoritafish]

On the bus, on the way home from work the other day, we were only a few stops away from where I get off. I was listening to a podcast when over my headphones I heard the bus driver say loudly "You have got to be kidding me!" I looked up to see we were pulling into the outer left turn land from Golden West onto Yorktown. Ahead of us, I could see other cars pulling out of the lane, revealing a black Hummer, stopped, with what appeared to be a teenage boy pouring gas into to the tank from a tiny red gas can - it looked like it could barely hold half a gallon. He pulled the spout out and sprinted across the lanes to the Chevron station on the corner.

"I can't believe it!" the bus driver exclaimed. "You can afford that big honking car and you can't put gas in it?! Does someone have a camera? We need a picture of this."

"I do!" I said, pulling mine out of my backpack and jumping to the other side of the bus; unfortunately, he had already pulled up beside it to turn left, and it wasn't an angle you could see anything going on, and the bus had to keep moving. He continued on to the next stop, where he told me, "You know I should have stopped and let you take that. I might have gotten in trouble, but it would have been worth it."

"Maybe they couldn't afford car payments and gas," I told him. "After all, that's why I'm riding the bus."

Heh. I shouldn't be so amused at another's misfortune, as I've been in that situation before, but the huge vehicle, and the little tiny gas can...I don't think one fill from it would have been enough to get the damn thing started.

Comments

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

Ha!
I hate Hummers, they are just so damn unneccessarily huge.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Our governator has a fleet of them, which is why I got so pissed when all of us state employees got an email signed by him last year on how we all had to conserve gas as much as possible in state vehicles. He says he's had them all converted to hybrids, but even if he has, I'll bet they still use more gas than an average car.

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

OMG. o.0

Hummer

[laughdavid614.livejournal.com]

Well I hate them for driving around town in, but if I lived on the Serengeti, Australian outback, last week in parts of Minnesota, or Chicago where it flooded, or just when we get 2 feet of snow in one storm here in Ohio, I'd really love to have one. Maybe some company will invent an insurance police that will deliver a Hummer to you when your threatened by emergency. Hey if the insurance companies in Greece had invested in a policy like that maybe they wouldn't of had 60 people die in fires over the last week. Can you imagine what the cost of paying out life insurance policies on 60 people here in the US?
Think I'll stick to my little 30mpg Neon though for the time being. Come to think of it mountain bikes work for the above conditions too. :)

[archaeomom8.livejournal.com]

Great story! Wish you had managed to get the picture.

Btw I love your idea of a photo a day. I carry a camera with me too, but don't know if I could discipline myself to taking a shot a day. Weird, because some days I take many.

I may try it.

Now if I could just get more bandwidth to play with my photos at flickr w/out having to get me (and various kids) off to an Internet cafe...