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Or at least we should. So, do you think we can stop talking about how high gas prices are? At a minimum, perhaps hold our discussions on these topics to under twenty minutes?

It would be one thing if you were discussing the oil industry, its tax shields, or the political ramifications of those high gas prices. But you’re not.

You’re simply bitching about paying three bucks a gallon for your H3 gas guzzling monster. You’re bitching that you remember thinking it was high when it went over one dollar, let alone two.

This conversation, at most, takes two or three minutes. Tops. There simply isn’t anything else to say without stretching out into something like the topics I mentioned earlier. But you don’t. You simply sit around and say shit like this.

A: Man, I had to pay $3/gallon today.
B: I did that yesterday.
C: Full tank costs me $35 bucks man.
A: Yeah, that’s about what mine cost
B: My truck costs $55. It sucks.
A: Wow. That much? How many gallons?
B: 18.
C: Yeah, that’s about right.
A: Sucks dude.
B: Remember when it passed two?
A: Yeah. I even remember one.
C : God these prices suck.

Now continue that for another half hour and you’ll see why I want to bash their heads in with a shovel. My god, people. There are hundreds of possible conversations that you could have working off the topic. But you refuse to budge from your own self absorbed financial misery.

Gas it expensive. And the price has been rising recently.

WE GET IT.

Seriously. We all noticed. And if we lived under a rock and walked to work, we still caught the thousands of news stories. And political chest thumping. And we saw the signs on every gas station in the country. And, if nothing else, you said the same fucking thing yesterday. And the day before. And the day before.

I'm SICK of it.

I KNOW GAS IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN IT USED TO BE

So shut the fuck up already. If you don’t I swear I’m bringing a shovel tomorrow. Dual purpose. Useful both for assault and concealment. Think long and hard about that next time you feel like discussing how much your gas cost this morning.