The cost of gas

It's no secret, that while gas prices are lower then what they were a few months ago (they are at $3.33 here) they are still high. With the economy in the shitter, I'm still in awe that gas companies can cry poverty yet still post trillions of dollars in gains on their quarterly reports.

However, I was kind of taken back when we pulled up to a gas pump in MA on our date night and saw this:


Yes, that's a TV. On top of the gas pump. Here's a closer shot:


It was tuned into to "GS (gas station)" channel and what was currently on was something from ESPN.

Seriously. WTF? Have you ever seen anything so ridiculous?

And dude, why is gas 20 cents cheaper 30 miles from my house? What's MA got that we don't have?

The Weird just get Weirder....

For the last month, there has been a deceased cat residing in front of my house. It was not ours nor do we know who it belonged to. It was not something I was going to dispose of either (I was silently praying for snow with hopes that a plow would move it to parts unknown).

I had a friend who called one day upset, thinking it was our cat out there.

Anyway, today, I was walking through the house and happened to see a guy out in front with a shovel and a plastic bag from a local supermarket. He scooped up the cat and walked across the street. Thinking it was one of the neighbors who got sick of seeing it and decided to do a good deed and dispose of it, I watched him walk away. Only he walked all the way down the street and around the corner out of site.

I can only hope that it was this poor guys pet and he was going to dispose of it and that it wasn't dinner (around here, you never know)!

You don't see that everyday...

Today we were driving past one of the local United States Postal Offices. And they happened to be receiving a delivery from UPS.