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What. The. HELL!! Is going on with gas prices?!

Saturday, the Tom Thumb gas station near me was $2.48 for the cheapest. Today, 5 days later, it's $2.61! How in the world can gas prices jump 13 cents in 5 days? HOW?!

EDIT: I just discovered this handy-dandy official governmental tracking of gas prices for the past 2 years: Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update. Using that data, regular gasoline prices for the entire nation have gone up 7.69% in the last week and 36.00% over the last year! And locally, using the Gulf Coast numbers since that's the closest region to me, gas prices have gone up 9.03% in the last week and 39.54% in the last year!

According to this, we're actually matching and/or beating the price (adjusted for inflation) of gas during the energy crisis in the late Seventies!

From last night

I work as the office manager/front desk person for a very small dental office (5 staff total, including the dentist, assistant and hygeinist). Barring serious asshattery, we're unfailingly polite and nice to our patients. It makes them feel more at ease, which means that they're (somewhat) less nervous in the chair and therefore more likely to complete necessary treatment.

HOWEVER.

If you, one of our patients, see me walking out of a grocery store with a full cart 45 minutes after we close, don't, I repeat: DON'T, deliberately block my cart and "jokingly" ask me if "the doc sent [me] grocery shopping for him." First of all: AHASDFHHADFASGDGAFH~!!!!!! Second of all: the doctor is perfectly capable of doing his own grocery shopping, and in fact told me that he was going to do so as we were closing up. That's what reminded me that I needed to do so as well. Third of all: just because you are acquanted with me does not give you permission to touch my food, even if it's packaged and in grocery bags.

In short: I'm tired after a long day at work and I don't need you gettin' all up in my grill. Goway.

crossposted to drewbeartx and customers_suck

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Well, that was odd.

I just explained general relativity theory in a hodge-podge of layman's terms and Star Trek examples sufficient to get the core concepts across to my roommate.

Now I just need to find a way to explain quantum mechanics using Star Wars.