Due to the current "gas crisis" we Atlantans are facing, we have to be creative with transportation. I am fortunate to have a short commute to work. I live and work in Alpharetta. I am also fortunate to work for a company that has begun to allow employees telework. For those of you unfamiliar with that term, it simply means work-from-home. I began this chapter in my work career a couple weeks ago. I telework twice a week, every other week. That equates to 20%. It is definitely something that takes some discipline. But enough of that, cause I have commented on the perils of blogging about work.
Rich is not so fortunate. He must endure an awful commute to Tucker! I have driven this route with him on the weekend before and I must say, Tucker is an ugly area. And I do not apologize if you live in that area because, yuck. What a hole. On top of the undesirable commute, his Jeep SRT8 is a pig. So, he takes my car on occassion to ease our fuel costs.
Last night was my one night I have class at Kennesaw. For those readers who are not Atlantans my commute from Alpharetta to KSU and back works out to roughly 40 miles round trip. I started my haul with 3/4 tank of gas and was feeling optimistic. I mean, come on! I should be able to find a station with petrol on my 20 mile cross town drive! Come to find out, I wasn't the only person out hunting. I wasn't worried. After class I would take a slightly altered route and will surely be successful. Wrong, yet again.
This morning, Rich left early to fight traffic and locate some go-go juice for my thirsty little Honda! I just received the following message and felt I should share.
"No luck on the gas yet- I had stopped at a Citgo over this way andSo there you have it. My story is not unlike many others. Care to share your adventures with me? I'm listening!
after seeing that I needed to pay inside and pay cash, I should have left.
I instead gave the attendant/owner/criminal 20 bucks. I go out to the
pump and 1 penny barely registered. I then went back and told him it did
not work and give me back my money-he gives me 15 back and then I told him
to try again. I finally got the other 5 after having to yell. Then.....(I cut this part
out because the encounter he had could have been borderline disastrous. Let's
just say he had to stare and individual down to get him to move out of his way
so that he could leave the parking lot of the station...mkay?), he sped off. All of that just to get some gas.......unreal. But hey, my lunchtime will be another adventure!"
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We live very near 75 and 92 and have witnessed the lines at many stations, at this exit and at the Wade Green one, plus the traffic complications caused by the lines. This has been going on for 3 days now, and many people STILL insist its just the "hoarding" factor, we are all making sure we have full tanks or willing to wait in lines to get there for fear that more stations will run out. I asked relatives in Chicago and this has not even made national news up there (or at least reached them in particular) yet it is all anyone talks about around here.
We are planning a road trip up to Illinois the weekend of Oct 9-10 for an annual family gathering and I am worried that is in peril!
Hopefully things will get better SOON.
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