Gas Prices At .33 Cents A Gallon!?!

[SgtRicko]

...Well, they were at a small gas station in Wisconsin for about one night. Apparently a store clerk accidently lowered the prices so by removing the last digit from the original price of $3.299, causing it to change instead into $.329. But what was really amazing though was how the entire area became aware of the error in under an hour an made a mad dash for that station until the managera and cops became aware of what was happening. Check the link below for the whole scoop, btw:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22153441/from/ET/?gt1=10645

[Thumper]

i live in wisconsin and i havent heard of this. and yes those people are dishonest as hell.

[Chuckie]

My first truck was a '69 GMC 1/2 ton I bought from a guy named Mike Eddings, his Father had totaled his 'vette so Mike took the L82 motor and Muncie gear box out of the 'vette and bolted it in the pickup. I started driving legal when I was 15 and if memory serves I was paying around .75 cents a gallon back then. We use to go out on the weekends in Conroe and go to the oldest gas station in town, it had no read outs inside for the pumps ;) We would wait untill he had a few cars around the pumps and go in and pay for five bucks worth of gas and then keep resetting the pump till we topped off....we got away with it most of the time :lol:

[sterio]

...Well, they were at a small gas station in Wisconsin for about one night. Apparently a store clerk accidently lowered the prices so by removing the last digit from the original price of $3.299, causing it to change instead into $.329. But what was really amazing though was how the entire area became aware of the error in under an hour an made a mad dash for that station until the managera and cops became aware of what was happening. Check the link below for the whole scoop, btw:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22153441/from/ET/?gt1=10645

And then you said .33 cents, which means it became even lower, at least in this thread ;) (as opposed to .33 dollars or 33 cents)

[SunnyInc.]

My first truck was a '69 GMC 1/2 ton I bought from a guy named Mike Eddings, his Father had totaled his 'vette so Mike took the L82 motor and Muncie gear box out of the 'vette and bolted it in the pickup. I started driving legal when I was 15 and if memory serves I was paying around .75 cents a gallon back then. We use to go out on the weekends in Conroe and go to the oldest gas station in town, it had no read outs inside for the pumps ;) We would wait untill he had a few cars around the pumps and go in and pay for five bucks worth of gas and then keep resetting the pump till we topped off....we got away with it most of the time :lol:

Didn't seventy-five cents buy you a house in those days?

:p

[KrasnyOktyabr]

It's $3.01 here, I was pleasantly surprised, as when I landed the prices in the city were about $0.20 cheaper.

[Chuckie]

Didn't seventy-five cents buy you a house in those days?

:p

Just about...but I did have to walk to school, uphill, both ways thru the snow :p

[ShadowClaw]

Just about...but I did have to walk to school, uphill, both ways thru the snow :p

And how exactly did you walk up hill to get to school and then UP hill again to get home? You have to go down hill at some point don't you:D

[Derek]

And how exactly did you walk up hill to get to school and then UP hill again to get home? You have to go down hill at some point don't you:D
The answer is obvious. His home and school were on opposite sides of a delicately balanced (and very large) see-saw. At night he was at home, making the house side of the see-saw slightly heavier, so that it slowly sank down, lifting up the school. The next morning he would hike uphill to school, once there the school would be on the heavier side and would once again very slowly sink down, so that by the end of the day he had to walk back uphill to get home.

[YuriRuler90]

Wow, Derek, just....wow. :p

[Alpha and Omega]

Simple, 2 one way streets leading from his house to the school. Each built with a slight incline and an exit ramp at the end. Lol
My grandpa used to ride his horse to school.

When my mom was young, gas here was 17 cents per gallon due to price wars in a neaby town. When they visited Yellowstone Park, they were angry that the only gas station there was at 50 cents per gallon, "HIGHWAY ROBBERY!" my grandpa said.

[SunnyInc.]

The answer is obvious. His home and school were on opposite sides of a delicately balanced (and very large) see-saw. At night he was at home, making the house side of the see-saw slightly heavier, so that it slowly sank down, lifting up the school. The next morning he would hike uphill to school, once there the school would be on the heavier side and would once again very slowly sink down, so that by the end of the day he had to walk back uphill to get home.

Winneh!

:D

My grandpa used to ride his horse to school.

D'ya mean ya grandma?

:p

[Toxic10x]

Just about...but I did have to walk to school, uphill, both ways thru the snow :p

...and you had to make sure you looked both ways, or a dinosaur could step on you :wave:

[Chuckie]

Toxic10x, you may notice a slight but increasing pressure building near your hip pockets, please, pay it no mind, its simply my foot going in your ass :p

[ein1017]

My dad always said he killed off the last of the dinosaurs so we would be safe, joked it was a bad idea.

[Chuckie]

Yeah, I keep telling Brooke and Stephanie "my other Daughter" that Mom and I are going to move while there in school, never have got around to it though.

[CrowRbot]

And how exactly did you walk up hill to get to school and then UP hill again to get home? You have to go down hill at some point don't you:D

Actually, there's an easier and more realistic explanation than Derek's. Chuckie said he walked uphill both ways, but did not mention walking downhill. He still could have walked downhill at some point on both journeys. All he'd need is a small hill between his home and school and he'd have walked uphill both ways to school (and downhill as well, but who cares about that?).

[Morph]

Good ol' Wisconsin....

[Statalyzer]

...and you had to make sure you looked both ways, or a dinosaur could step on you

Yeah - to the side, and up.