Hey all,
I guess it's been a little while since I've written, I haven't been feeling all that well. I have colds that have morphed into ear infections, it took two courses of antibiotics to knock it out. This afternoon I realized that I felt better than I've felt in a long time. Being under the weather hasn't been limited to me, Bella, my beautiful kitty had a bad eye for most of the last week, it was either a real infection, or her eye may have gotten scratched by Spooky while they were "playing."
My title is from this afternoon, I had stopped on base to get some groceries and gas. At the gas station they have an express check-out line for people not getting gas, the clerk motioned me over to that line and I remarked that "I've got gas" which I quickly corrected to something like "I'm also paying for petrol." He laughed, noting that many people will make comments similar to mine and not realize what they are saying.
While I am on the topic of the car, last weekend, which was a long weekend, I drove up to the base in Heidelberg for their Christmas bazaar. I was my first trip out of the Stuttgart area, about an hour, so it was also a first for my little car. It did well, I probably averaged 80 mph, which is pretty tame as the German autobahn goes, and I did get it up to 100 mph once, it was all traffic dependent. The bazaar was okay, nothing real notable there for shopping.
But my point is about the car. When I put gas in today, it had been two weeks, I drove well over 600 km on the tank and filling it only cost about $34.00. Not bad when compared to the Bimmer which I was putting $65-70 worth of gas in once a week before it was totalled. Granted gas prices were higher then, but still, even a cheap tank of gas on that thing was $40. All in all, I have to say I am pretty happy with the little car.
Evan
