Subj : Tiers
To   : Andrea Santos
From : Stewart Honsberger
Date : Thu Aug 02 2001 05:09 am

Hello Andrea!

Aug 02 2001 08:17, Andrea Santos wrote to Jack Yates:

 ->> It takes fifty cents at the C-store-filling station to pump up a soft 
 ->> tire now, or buy your own compressor.

 AS> Unbelievable.  Haven't seen that here.

Quite believable. Many gas stations in Canada are taking similar measures. 
Compressors, especially the often large ones in use at gas stations, are not 
cheap. Wear and tear on them can run up a pretty penny, and I'm sure it bothers 
owners when people use them and leave, without otherwise purchasing anything.

[Stewart Honsberger] [blackdeath@softhome.net] [http://blackdeath.brad-x.com/]

   "In /1984/, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain.
    In /Brave New World/, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.
    In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
    feared that what we love will ruin us." -- Neil Postman

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