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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
some say...weather some say...spring training some...come hither sales I drive past a 76...$3.399 a Chevron...$3.569 a Heller's...$3.539 back past 76...$3.359, whoa! but don't need any later that day...$3.459, darn! glad I don't need any Chevron...consistently $3.569 I, continue hoping that when I need it, my discounts account for a great portion great enough to dip below the low of the low is it, "Pull out..." "meddle, meddle" "stir, stir" "nosey, nosey" or merely the season spring break on the horizon creep those prices up toward keeping mom & dad and their kin from taking a spin however do we get the economy to improve if we do not approve adventure toward expenditure if the access robs all the excess for pleasure to treasure ©Virginia Salter 3/14/14 Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
They said the reason for the last price hike was the refineries were making their "summer blend". I'm sorry, but the "winter blend" was still in the tanks at the gas station. They could have at least waited until they got it before they raised the price! grrrrrrrr!! Lori  |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Im afraid the Arabs have gained a style of living that requires high prices to continue for their pleasure...james |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I bought gas where I live for $1.94 a gallon Sunday. ~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~ |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
We're down to $2.77, but out on the highway, 6 miles from town, it's 2.51 or something near that. Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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Ticklefingers Senior Member Posts 710 Louisiana |
Gas prices? Hmm. There are places where a box of bullets cost four times the price of a gallon of gasoline. When prices are lower, the bullets get a little cheaper. An arm or a leg is no longer a clever cliche'. Check for yourselves if it matters. 88's all. She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast". |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Ticklefingers...thanks for reading and replying. I'm curious about the "no longer a clever cliché" I don't see an arm or a leg mentioned anywhere but in your reply. Was it just a lamenting on your part for want of a clever one? Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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Ticklefingers Senior Member Posts 710 Louisiana |
Words are arranged by the writer. Your words, my words, everyone's words. That there is poetry that I don't understand is a surety. Still, the words retain a color to me, sometimes with the symmetrical stream of a kaleidoscope and other times like the impacted splash of a Jackson Pollack masterpiece. Moving on. Arm and a leg (Clever yet sometimes overused cliche') = The high cost of anything which is 'no joke to most folk'. I love to have to explain myself so late in life. Makes me feel like a schoolboy sticking pigtails in an inkwell. By the way... You must have understood my 88's, but just in case: "As a piano player, '88's are a wish to bestow good fortune and happiness to someone. JerryPat2 seemed to grasp it right away, but then he's been here, there and everywhere". (Though the relationship between extending "88's" to someone and the piano is purely coincidental, the old wish always feels appropriate and I always use it sincerely.) She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast". |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
I thought you had made the comment on the cliché because you thought it shouldn't be used any longer and I didn't see it in my poem or in any of the comments, so I wondered what brought it up, that's all. Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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