We are having a family outing all day tomorrow. We have a friend attending a conference in town who is coming home with us for dinner. Since we will be gone all day, I decided to run down to Kroger for a couple grocery items.
When I got into the check out lane the cashier, bag boy and another member of their posse were listening to the bag boy quote lines from the movie Wayne's World. I admit I have seen the movie and probably lost IQ points for having done so, but it was funny. The movie came out in 1992, but it was based on a skit from Saturday Night Live that appeared even earlier. Seeing as how the bag boy seemed to be all of twelve I in all of my mature adult wisdom said, "Wasn't Wayne's World a bit before your time?" To which he replies, "I love the old stuff." He proceeds to tell me his parents love all the old stuff from the 80s. I guess I set myself up for that one.
As I was leaving Kroger, I noticed all the cars lined up at the Kroger gas station. I had been watching coverage of Hurricane Ike before I left the house, but I didn't realize that gas prices had already jumped. I just happened to have my camera so I took some pictures to share. Cars were coming in from three different directions. There were probably about 20 cars in the three different lines not counting the ones that were actually at the pumps.
This one is taken out my front windshield. I am about the fifth car back in this line.
About the middle of the picture to the right of the red van that is parked is a line coming in off of the street. It is about six cars deep.
This is a shot I took after I fueled up. All of the cars are stopped and waiting to fuel up. The pictures don't show the whole area. Where was photographer extraordinaire (a.k.a. Gregg) when I needed him?
Gas at Kroger was $3.67/gallon. When I pulled out of the Kroger parking lot I was surprised to see the gas station across the street was not crowded at all. Their gas was $4.37/gallon.
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Gregg just told me that his mom saw gas for 4.47 earlier today. It's slowly rising here as well. Ugh. I so should have filled up a couple of days ago. Rats!!!
BTW, Tamra told us that the best thing about being in hurricane country (once upon a time) was when the grocery stores would mark all the ice cream 50% off. I know you're not in a direct path of Ike's remnants, but should you encounter anything in the future, you can file that one away. ;-)
P.S. You should see the flooding here with all the rain. Oh my word. It's insane. I'll try and get some photos if the rain lets up anytime soon.
It's starting to rise here, but I haven't seen anything as high as $4.37. I hope that trend doens't continue.
You don't want to know the gas prices here. *shudder*
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