At 08:30 PM 3/22/00 -0500, Andy Dixon wrote:
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>Remember the 97 cents a gallon we were paying just a few short weeks ago?
>When it comes to supply and demand it's pay me now or pay me later. Well
>guess what? later just arrived. Didn't see the letters off outrage back
>then, no one thought we ought to be paying $1.20 like we were before those
>low prices.
>Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see it at 97 cents again but having paid
>European prices in the past we ought to save them the bellyaching (besides,
>they are probably laughing at all the cry babies over on this side of the
>pond). Our salaries are generally higher and our cost of living lower. We
>have absolutely nothing to cry about.
Reminds me of what my great, great, great, great, great, great Uncle Fred
told my great, great, great, great, great, great Aunt Myrtle... "Don't fret
Dear, it's only a couple more pence for tea. Remember, it's a lot higher
in the home country and they don't have all the advantages we have here in
Boston."
If no one complains, nothing ever improves..
Also on with the Nomex...
Don Marshall
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