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I used to think the older I got the more stuff pissed me off because that’s what getting older does.
\nI was wrong.<\/p>\n

The older I get the more thing’s piss me off because I compare then and now – and now is found wanting.<\/p>\n

\"\"Case in point.
\nThe wife’s tire pressure light comes on in her car.<\/p>\n

She’s all in a tizzy because she’s afraid the tire will fall off on the freeway.
\nThere’s no talking her out of that.<\/p>\n

So I look at the tire, and yes, it’s lookin’ down a bit.
\nBeing a handyman I dig out the wiz-bang electric tire pump from underneath a pile of stuff in the garage and get ready to put some air back in that baby.<\/p>\n

It’s broken.
\nThe last person to borrow it returned it all busted up and never said anything.<\/p>\n

A tire pump is one of those things you don’t need very often, but when you do – you need it.
\nMine’s busted.<\/p>\n

So I tell her let’s go to the gas station up the street.
\nThese places usually have something to put air in your tires.<\/p>\n

I told her to grab some coins because nothing is free anymore and I suspect we’ll have to feed the machine.<\/p>\n

\"\"Yes indeed, we had to feed the machine.<\/p>\n

$1.50 to pump some air.
\nThe air is free.
\nThe delivery of that air isn’t.<\/p>\n

$1.50 – think about it.<\/p>\n

And sitting right next to it is another machine that wants $1.50 to put some water in your car.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t too many years ago it would have been free or maybe 25-cents.
\nNow I’m pissed.<\/p>\n

This is one of those stations that sell gas and makes fortune off its convenience store.
\nIt used to be air and water was a service for their customers.<\/p>\n

Places like this no longer have services – that have profit centers.
\nTheir idea of a service is contract with some company to install the water and air machines and take a cut.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t expect these machines to be used more than a couple of times a day and the convenience store gold mine could easily absorb the cost.<\/p>\n

I also wouldn’t expect management to even think of that.<\/p>\n

See why I’m grumpy?<\/p>\n

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