The poverty is pretty severe; traffic jams near every shopping center in West Boise. My wife came up with a scheme for reducing the problem: You only get to shop one day a week based on the first letter of your last name. This reduces the size of the traffic jams and crowds in stores. Are you old enough to remember odd/even gasoline station days in the 1970s?
I have a simpler solution: Christmas every month!
I thought up a great solution for reducing traffic problems - everyone else can take the bus.
ReplyDeleteHell yes, I remember that stupid idiocy.
ReplyDeleteIt helped that my girlfriend was a manager at a service station.
The fact that I was driving a Mustang that only got about 5mpg around town didn't.
Hey, it got about 10-12 on the highway!
But, it had to have the best gas, if I wanted to put the boot to it.
However, I drove it 'crosscountry on regular gas. (high compression with a radical cam, and 4.11 gears: last year of factory hotrods, 1971)
Hi-test was $2/gal.
In retrospect, I should have just run the cheap gas all the time.