Daily Archives: May 18, 2005

Blast From the Past

BD: Can I have my allowance?
Me: Sure.
BD: Can we go to the grocery store now?
Me: What for?
BD: I want to buy a magazine.
Me: What’s is called?
BD: Tiger Beat
Holy cow! I used to read that when I was her age. I had no idea they still published it.
But what does BD want with a magazine about David [...]

The Tank is Hall Full

HS arrived home from college last week and announced that he had made the 200 mile trip on 1/8 of a tank of gas. In a 1997 Plymouth with a 16 gallon tank. To those of you who might be math-impaired, that’s 100 MPG.
He’s now driven about 400 miles and the fuel gauge shows half-full. While [...]