Ah, so that's why you don't drive the car to the station.
Do you really think she'd just get in the car and drive it until empty and die on the spot?
Men do crazy things for women, but this is a new one on me.
You need some home repair, but it doesn't have anything to do with bulk transport of gasoline. But I'm guessing you wont listen. Hope it's worth it. When you were servicing the pretty neighbor lady I got confused.
Dan Espen wrote, on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:58:59 -0400:
I service *any* pretty lady I can, especially the wife, who cooks like a dream come true!
A 55 gallon drum full of gasoline is, what, a little under 400 pounds. It would be tough to get into the trunk. Or out.
I've heard of other guys using portable cans to keep wife's car gassed up. Remember, this is the same Danny D who was going to set up as a water hauler for his neighborhood.
My uncle used to keep a 250-gallon tank of ag gas for his Poppin' Johnnies. It was on the highway, 100 yards up the road from the house. Delivery charges must have been reasonable because he had a big pickup and a flatbed and could easily have rigged a hoist. I'm sure companies still deliver ag gas, and they probably deliver road gas.
Stormin Mormon wrote, on Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:04:21 -0400:
The neighbors solved their water problem with a new well.
Our *new* community problem is that the darn county is ripping up all the blue reflectors we had carefully epoxied into the middle of the road on the more dangerous curves, so that non-resident cars would stay to the side on blind curves.
You dope! Those blue reflectors are to indicate the location of a fire hydrant. No wonder the county is ripping them up.
Blue is the wrong color but they would get ripped up regardless of color. Government does like this sort of action by regular people even when everything is done perfectly.
Government is also lazy. They might not remove other colors, but blue could cause firefighters to waste precious time looking for nonexistent hydrants.
They aren't lazy about this sort of thing. It's like union work. You better call in the electrician to change a light bulb or else.
Wow, you do some good, and the county comes along and rips up the reflectors. That sounds like a bad place to live.
Some thing new every day. Maybe if they used yellow reflectors, it would be acceptable?
. Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus
Pico Rico wrote, on Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:48:25 -0700:
Yeah, we know.
-> Blue is for water.
-> White is for single lanes.
-> Yellow is for double lanes.
-> Red is for the wrong way.
The local ACE hardware only had blue, so, we bought blue.
We didn't really think anyone would be fooled by thinking there was a hydrant nearby since the only hydrant is miles away down the hill.
They would probably have ripped up the white ones anyway, but, what we're going to do is play 'what-a-mole' and put them back up, only we haven't yet decided whether to use the white non-reflective oval shaped ones, or the white reflective square ones.
The oval shape non reflective ones are a lot cheaper, and we need to put in a few hundred, so, it matters because our budget determines how many we put up.
Brent wrote, on Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:17:51 +0000:
I had spoken to the guys who ripped them up. They said they got a work order, and that was it. They didn't give any other reason.
They did say that they normally paint over crosswalks that people paint in the road, and that this middle line thing was new to them.
Anyway, they suggested the white non-reflective ovals, and/or the white reflective squares.
The homeowners have elected one person (not me thankfully) to deal with the county to try to get a bunch of mirrors put up. I hate dealing with the government, as it's easier to just do it ourselves.
So, next Sunday, we're gonna put them back (only white), and see how long our whack-a-mole game goes on with the county.
Pico Rico wrote, on Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:02:22 -0700:
There aren't any hydrants within *miles* of these reflectors, so, while I do understand that statement, it's unlikely anyone would think there are hydrants nearby, especially since the hydrant is indicated by a single reflector (or two, when on a curve) but never a huge line of a few dozen of them.
Anyway, we're gonna play whack-a-mole with the county when we get some white non-reflective dots, or the more expensive white reflective ones. The game plan is next Sunday. So, if/when they go in, I'll snap a photo for you guys (they look great at night since there is no other source of light for miles around).
Stormin Mormon wrote, on Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:55:38 -0400:
Yellow is for multiple-lane roads here in California. White is the appropriate color for single-lane roads.
The problem is that the road is, technically, too narrow for *any* centerline. That's what the line-painting crew told me when I asked why they strip the very bottom half mile but not the rest of the road.
So, by putting white, we'd be in keeping with one rule, but in violation of the other. That's why we don't think the county will put them in, but we did assign a neighbor to ask them to put a mirror in.
However, some residents argued that the mirror would actually make it more dangerous, as people would *assume* their is no car, and they might miss a person walking or something.
So, we liked the idea of the *bumps* which keep tires to one side of the narrow road.
Stormin Mormon wrote, on Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:54:32 -0400:
Hey Stormin, Wanna know something that's a bit funny?
The guys who put in most of those reflectors ran out of the brown construction glue that they had used. You can see most of them have brown gunk on them.
However, in the picture, is one with *black* epoxy. I put those in! The original guys ran out of their glue, so I volunteered to put the next set in, and I used those rolls of epoxy that you find in the box stores.
Heh heh ... I had to *ask* the county road crew whether they found some were harder than others, and, guess what?
At least mine were the hardest for them to remove, and, hence, the most damaged as you can see in those pictures.
All those reflectors are only about two months old, so, they all were damaged by the road crew removal process.
heh heh ... see? I learned *something* from this eclectic advisory a.h.r newsgroup!
Some decades ago, my family went on vacation to California. We had the privilege of playing Whackamole. I tried to "use the force". The local kids had figured out the order of the moles and were getting higher scores than I did.
Mom and Dad used to refer to the "whackamole car" we drove, every time you repair some thing, some thing else breaks.
At least the county guys had to work for their money, this time. Wish the gov't would respect the wisdom of the populace.
. Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus
Stormin Mormon wrote, on Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:31:48 -0400:
Yea. And they removed the plastic garbage can that I had bolted to the end curve of a guardrail where people drink & leave debris.
It's getting harder and harder to be a good Samaritan nowadays ...
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