Complaing

[Toolman56]

Since i'm new here , i really don't want to cause any waves here or offend anyboby here , if so, i'll say my sorry's now, but as we went thru spring, we complain and still complain about the high gas price's around the world, but here in the state's we celerbrate the 4th of July here ok, so happy 4 th of July everyboby, see were i'm going with this, i just thought of this today at work today, you ether pay the pump or you dont go to work, thats the bottom line, thats what i do i dont care what the price is ,and no im not rich, i'm past poor , living paycheck to paycheck here ,does no good to complain anyway, so i just fill up and make a game out of it, one week might be more next week might be less, so i made a sorta likea bingo card for myself if i get three macth's in a month , i treat myself to a steak here, but back to were this were this started, now every body complaining that's true, but did you ever notice those same people are the one's line up and willing to drive to Mo and buy $500 to $1000 dollers worth of firework's without throwing a fit , now that dont make sence to me, i rather spend the money on gas myself, what's your vote or?

[lucky788scroller]

Uhh, Ill take the gas too, BUT, that dont mean I'm not going to stop complaining about the overinflated price either!

[minowevie]

Toolman, I sure see your point. but hell ya I am going to complain. if we don't . then I guess they will just keep raising it and raising it. I too am thankfull I live in a country, where I have the privledg to work and pay bills. but dang. If I don't say how I wont my country to be run. or what I have to pay for things. I might as well live in a athoritairion country. where I don't have the right to speek my mind or have a say in anything. ps. I don't just complain, I vote and try to make life easyer on myself. and others around me. I wouldnt have to buy gass, if they would let me ride my horse in town, or horse and buggy. ok, that is what I think. your friend Evie

[GrayBeard Phil]

Hmmmm

Gas for car -- Needed for job

Lumber for hobby, and I mean good cherry, or walnut from North-West PA, well I guess that is discretionary.

12 year old single malt Scotch, I guess that is discretionary also. (not the scotch, the 12-year old single malt bit.)

So yea, I guess a week or more pay check on fireworks seem excessive, but it be a choice.

Buying gas for work, just don't have any choice.

Phil

[jigsue]

I say to each his own. I remember spending a month's paycheck on a skirt! I don't know whether I would ever do that again, but at the time I travelled to work by bus and for weeks the skirt in the shop window beckoned me...

My husband bought me a scrollsaw for my 40th birthday thinking "this is another thing she will play with once and move on". Wrong - and perhaps lucky, so this was well worth the investment.

As for fireworks, I love 'em. We attend maritime festivals all over Europe and there are some fantastic displays, especially in France. People pay their ticket money and, I guess, a portion of that money goes towards the display.

Life would be so boring if we didn't spend a little on pleasure and delight now and again.

Sue

[Toolman56]

I rember driving thru cal a few years back, i couldnt belive how high the gas was then , i couldnt fathom now, and i love to live there by the ocean , i love the clashing of waves, see i never left Iowa ecept when i started to drive a 18 wheeler , then to me, i didnt care how much i got paid, to me i was seeing the world,

[sawdustus]

I remember the long gas lines of the seventies and what we then thought were outrageous price hikes. Lived through it and made do. Had to buy gas to go to work to earn the money to buy the gas to go to work to... food and entertainment, well with three kids one was a luxury that became unaffordable for a while. Oh well, here we go again. Fortuanately we are both retired and both get decent pensions so we are not hurting. Not always the same with our kids. We do what we can for them. The only solution I can see is to vote out of office anyone who doesn't actively and clearly legislate for relief for those working folks who are hurting the most (and I don't mean the energy executives and their official friends).