Mike Fields wrote:

"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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Andy Asberry wrote:


On 2 Apr 2005 07:30:59 -0800, "Too_Many_Tools"
wrote:



To set the time frame for this tale; remember when motor oil came in
real cans? (metal content)


Heck, I remember when it came in 55 gallon barrels and we young pump
jockeys had to transfer it into those one quart glass jars with those
tinplate screw on spouts on top of them.

Jeff



Yeah, and there was the Flying A Service stations where you could
get your car serviced ... had to get gas this morning and I think I
got "serviced" instead $2.37 (up to $2.41 same station by the time I
came home). When people came in, you did their windows, checked
the water and oil for them and all those good things (been there done that)


Right, I even had to clean the front floors of customers' cars with a
whisk broom and dustpan. (Seriously.)

I just hope that gas prices don't go so high that young toughs will
start stealing gas from peoples cars like they did during the oil
shortages in the mid 70s.

Remember how those *******s used to shove a pan under the back of your
car and then jam a shiv up through the bottom of the gas tank so they
could make off with your gas? Ugly times.

Jeff

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Jeffry Wisnia

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