To cry or to scream? That is the question. I will probably just drive to the movies instead and watch Wall-E again…

furthering the division of rich and poor, the present administration should be proud

Cord ,you are much too good for Mollygood.

I don't understand how people can afford to go to the movies either. Or am I just the only ridiculously poor person out there who basically works so that she can put gas in her car just to get to work? What a joke.

Seriously Crumb, i get paid every two weeks and i've finally started some kind of budget that allows me to not have to use my credit card to get through the second week before my next paycheck. It really crushes your soul not being a rick piece of crap.

ahem . . rich not rick

I took my son, friend and her daughter to see Wall E (which was great)
tickets $26.00
popcorn & drink $12.00
candy from Walgreens $4.00
gas $4.00
What a deal!

I'm screwing over those oil men. I don't have a car, so I either walk, bus or ride my bike everywhere and I can borrow movies from the library for free! In your face richies….boo ya!

What makes me angry is all the rich people saying "money doesn't buy you happiness". Go to fucking hell you rich piece of shit. If I had money, I'd be happy. The only reason I'm miserable all the time is because I can't afford to eat and not eating makes me hostile.

Yeah, I get that maybe having lots of money can make other people want to be your friend and this and that, but whatever. People want to be my friend anyway because I'm so awesome. So, you see, me being rich really wouldn't change anything except I'd be happy. It's a win-win.

Crumb, did you see the link Ilnaz posted a few days back to an article about money actually buying some happiness? I feel your pain. Husband and I both had grad school loans and we have two kids. Some more money WOULD make me happier right now.

Anyway… Iron Man! It's at the cheap theater this weekend! I'm there…

People who say money doesn’t buy you happiness have never been broke or had to go hungry. Yeah money isn't the be all end all, but it sure makes it a hell of a lot easier live. I don't need to be mega rich, but it would be nice to put gas in my car and pay rent without worrying if I have enough left to eat.

This will never happen but here is what I would like see. Politicians for the most part have the summer off. I want every member of Congress and the Senate to get jobs like the rest of us for those 2 or 3 months and lets see how they do. It will never happen. I doubt if you could find more than one or two who were willing to try

And yet, I still see a huge car line at the drive thru Starbucks every morning as I pass.

(The parking lot, interestingly, has just a few parked cars. Employees?)

Each car in line, with a few exceptions, has only one person in it.

I say gas prices aren't HIGH ENOUGH yet if folks are still willing to idle in a drive-thru waiting for their overpriced cup of morning motivation.

Second that, qc. Dunkin' Donuts tastes fine with enough cream. Or, brew at home! Coffee for pennies!

Wow. Now if I were a dishonest person, I'd have one of my friends living in Korea just buy me the bootleg video of the movie I wanted to see (the bootlegs are available when the movie first comes to theatres in the US). It's cheaper, it feels better knowing that you're stickin' it to the man, and you can do it all from the privacy of your own home. Or so I've been told.

I hate the next day when I do this. The "I have had a beer thing".

I made my point already by juxtapositioning the waste of idling a car for 1/2 hour, when gas is $5 a gallon, in a drive-through line to pick up a $5 12 ounce cup of beverage.

But, I have to tell you all, I REMEMBER.

The 70's. We had a GAS CRUNCH. We could only purchase gas on odd or even days.

Our day was determined either by the last number on our license plate or the last number on our driver's license. I can't remember that part specifically.

I DO remember that I was an even. Because I always get EVEN.

It really sucked ass.

I DO remember sitting in a long line at the gas station. It was like a rock concert that you had to camp out for.

We seriously had to get in a line for gas and wait.

We all bandied about the notion that we had to come up with some viable alternitive fuel sources.

I guess we dropped the ball. All I can say is, sorry young people.

There IS the Prius, but all in all, us old folks should have seen this coming. We failed you.

The Prius has no trunk space!!! Why cant they design a hybrid with a good size trunk?

Yeah, I do know about that mess with the Prius trunk space.

Here is what happened:

We all came up with this great idea to offset the gas consumption of an engine with BATTERY POWER. Phenomenal idea.

Much back patting then ensued.

YES, good answer we all thought!!

How many batteries? Much mulling, scribbling, grafts and talking came next.

10!!?? Damn. Let's work on this. Where will they go?

Put them in the trunk was a smart answer at that time.

THEN I says, but there will be no more space of storage for anything else. What can we do about that?

Right at that moment this guy brought over the beer.

It was obviously a wrap at that point. I got drunk with the rest of the brain trust.

We DID do some fantastic dancing, and karaoke.

We never got to the discussion of the water powered hovercraft a la George Jetson.

My Bad.