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Friday, October 3, 2008
A gas hunter’s paradise
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It appears the gas crisis centers around area QT stores.
Aside from their fine fountain drinks and clean restrooms, QT has now become the first franchise to host its own history of social development. Why QT? Probably because each station has over one-thousand gas pumps fueling over 2.4 million cars daily each.
That’s great until you run out of gas. Then, customers equaling the population of Scion, Texas, instead of rolling out and moving toward more fertile ground, will stay and plant roots at the pumps. This literally creates a new history of people. Large groups of people, masses of them, not leaders, literally shape history. This is good timing for the QT squatters since our leadership is (hopefully only temporarily) thin.
Now, from a historical perspective, if history is to repeat itself, these squatters will begin to create a new social development and literally start a new history. You and I both know this means one thing:
Viking helmets and wagon trains.
We will survive. History will show that sooner or later we’ll overcome the absence of gasoline and form small communities surviving on convenient store burritos and Cappuccinos. We will eventually migrate north to the mountains near Helen where we’ll combine to form larger social communities selling beer and fudge to the invading Norwegians who will invade but due to their lack of enthusiasm for weapons, will quickly surrender to the members of the Moose Lodge in East Brunswick.
As bleak as it seems, the gas is moving from Texas through Georgia and up the coast. It will cover 3-5 miles a day and once again we will full and happy gas pumps around the year 2013.
Soon? We’ll get there and then once we’re putting around town in we can turn our attention to other matters such as how the hell we’re going to retire now. The good news: It’s 5 O’clock somewhere.
