Sean Bossinger’s Doings

I just waited 30 minutes in line for gas.

Thankfully, we have electricity, water, food, and all of the basic necesities that one might require for life… except for gas. So I told my wife at 4 today that I was going to go find some. I drove down the street to the local BJs Wholesale Club, and joined the queue. As the gas truck had just arrived at the station, no one was being allowed in. So the truck pulls out about 4:10, and the line starts moving. I'm 30th in line, and it went smooth as buttah. As steve martin put it in Bowfinger, “It's jiggy, baby.” By 4:40, I was done. Yeah, technically, it's 40 minutes, but I knew the line wasn't moving, so I shaved the 10 minutes off.

I really have issues with people complaining about the government “not coming to their assistance” sooner. We're told to have enough on hand to last three days ourselves, and it turns out that that's about how long it takes to get assistance centers running smoothly. If this had been a catastrophic storm, and water and food supplies were contaminated (like in Katrina), I might be able to stomach the complaints. But other than that, keep your yap shut… you were told to have water on hand - if you didn't, that's your business.

For next year, I hope to have enough MREs to keep my family stocked for three weeks. They're actually quite tasty. And thankfully, we haven't had to tap our emergency 24 gallon water supply.