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Yesterday the wife passed a gas can!
October 24, 2019, 06:42 PM
rburgYesterday the wife passed a gas can!
She was driving and wouldn't stop. Hard for me to believe, but I really don't have much use for it. I fill my gas can/cans well before empty. It was just the awful feeling of letting that $7 can sit along side the road (over by where P220 lives). Its not like I need another, there surely are a dozen or so up in the top of my garage. Back about 7 years ago I bought a then new jeep and received a gas debit card. Good for a few hundred $ cost (not worth) of gas. I proceeded to fill them and give them to my older son to fill his nearly empty motor home. Yes, the one with the 454 for propulsion. Thirsty 454, as they all were.
But its a compulsion to clean up the road sides. Who knows, some day we'll have a gas shortage again, and then my collection will be in great demand.
It'll eat at me until I find and retrieve another.
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October 24, 2019, 07:06 PM
cparktd$7 gas can...
Have you not priced one lately???
Endeavor to persevere. October 24, 2019, 07:20 PM
arcwelderBoy, I thought passing a kidney stone was hard...
Arc.
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October 24, 2019, 07:24 PM
P-220If that ever happens again, call or text me. I'll pick it up.
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October 24, 2019, 07:31 PM
slosigI’ve stopped a few times for gas cans. Usually, they’ve flow out or been thrown out and have a hole that isn’t obvious until I pick it up. One of them I was able to salvage parts off of, and one was actually good, but most were junk.
October 24, 2019, 07:32 PM
rburgquote:
Originally posted by P-220:
If that ever happens again, call or text me. I'll pick it up.
Sorry. It was over on 32 between Newtown and Lunken. Wasn't there an hour or so before when we passed on the way to Roy Rogers. I'm sure its gone now. It was in the stretch where they grow grass for sod. No excuse to run out there, the driver passed the Speedway by the levee or in the middle of Newtown. Both are low price places.
No idea how much gas cans cost these days, mine are all free!
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October 25, 2019, 05:21 AM
gearhoundsquote:
Originally posted by arcwelder76:
Boy, I thought passing a kidney stone was hard...
The first thing that popped into my head as well
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GA GatorDid Bendable hijack this guys account?
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October 25, 2019, 07:30 AM
MNSIGquote:
Originally posted by slosig:
I’ve stopped a few times for gas cans. Usually, they’ve flow out or been thrown out and have a hole that isn’t obvious until I pick it up. One of them I was able to salvage parts off of, and one was actually good, but most were junk.
I'd guess that's the norm, along with broken roadside bungee cords.
October 25, 2019, 07:38 AM
Pipe Smokerquote:
Originally posted by GA Gator:
Did Bendable hijack this guys account?
Serious about crackers. October 25, 2019, 12:03 PM
gpbst3quote:
Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
quote:
Originally posted by GA Gator:
Did Bendable hijack this guys account?
First thought was OP's wife let out the biggest fart of her life. Second though was that is a strange way to say your wife died. But low and behold, literally drove by a gas can on the side of the road.
October 25, 2019, 01:00 PM
FN in MTOne of my favorite stories about a good friend of mine....Just left the Dr Office after a vasectomy. Spies a gas can along side the Interstate. Has his wife stop so he can painfully limp out, holding his crotch in pain and retrieve it. LOL.
October 25, 2019, 01:18 PM
cheesegritsThis must be a guy thing. My husband stopped for a pair of those insulated leather gloves that linemen use. Some poor utility worker had lost his gloves in the middle of the road.
October 25, 2019, 02:48 PM
casA guy up the road had to new looking yellow metal diesel cans out by his trash a week ago. I wanted to stop but had to use the bathroom
REALLY badly.
I went back about ten minutes later and they were gone.
Still kicking myslef for not holding it. lol
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October 25, 2019, 03:10 PM
sandman76One time I was driving on 285 north and there was one of those snowmobile cans right in the road. Full. Six gallons of gas when I could really use it too. Still have that can. Gotta be 35 years ago.
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October 25, 2019, 03:19 PM
darthfusterDid she pull the blankets over your head first?
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier October 25, 2019, 03:55 PM
bendableit was decided , many years ago, that I can not have another pick up or van,
"when you build a 5000 sq ft garage , you can get a pick up /van "
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October 25, 2019, 04:15 PM
Tooky13quote:
Originally posted by arcwelder76:
Boy, I thought passing a kidney stone was hard...
Hah, that was my first thought when I read the title
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October 25, 2019, 04:43 PM
92fstechquote:
Originally posted by cheesegrits:
This must be a guy thing. My husband stopped for a pair of those insulated leather gloves that linemen use. Some poor utility worker had lost his gloves in the middle of the road.
A complete pair? I'd have stopped, too...those are good gloves! I'd stop for an old style gas can with the regular nozzle...the new EPA approved kind aren't even worth a look.
October 25, 2019, 04:56 PM
jhe888I can't say I've ever seen a gas can on the side of the road. What kind of people live where you are?
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