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Post by Cy Otauna on May 19, 2006 14:31:18 GMT -5
So I'm going for my test sometime soon, but resceduling it is being challenging, because all is done online, and online says I am not allowed to take my test untill September, which is not true, because I was supposed to take it two days ago!! *dies* So, how goes the drama of others' driving? Maybe there's a thread about this elsewhere, sorry. I don't venture into reality much.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on May 19, 2006 20:25:44 GMT -5
Heh. Yay for Driver's Ed... two and a half years ago. Let me get my liscense at fifteen. *grins* Although my car has a boo-boo, so I can't drive it.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on May 20, 2006 19:41:55 GMT -5
Ah, yeah. I've been driving since February. I love it. I could never go back to the days of non-driving. I love that I can just go where ever I want and I have tons more freedom now (Not that I didn't before, but now I can out much later because I don't need my parents to pick me up). Sometimes I go out to movies and don't get home till like 12:00. It's nice.
You are going today? Saturday, that is. Did you get it?
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Post by lexa on May 23, 2006 15:33:09 GMT -5
This is... unfair. Most of my friends are either driving or learning to drive, now you all are - but I'm not seventeen until next month and so I can't start having lessons until then. Everyone else has got a car or is borrowing someone else's and I just haven't.
Still, bright side: I don't have to pay for petrol yet *grin*
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on May 23, 2006 18:09:18 GMT -5
No joke. IT'S MURDEROUS!!!
*cough*
Because I live so dzang far out of town, my parents have been paying for my gas. But, this summer, I'm pretty much on my own. And I work minimum wage.... *dies* Although the prices overseas are much, much worse than in the US.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on May 23, 2006 20:26:38 GMT -5
You would think the prices in the US would be more, but I guess this is the strange way our world works.
It costs $2.89 here now. I think it's actually coming down. It was $3.24 in NY city. That's crazy!
My parents help out a lot with gas, but I still have to pay sometimes. I usually just take the car that has gas in it, and then they have to fill the tanks. Mwahahaa...
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Post by Trinity on May 23, 2006 21:32:38 GMT -5
$2.89?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? It's $3.49 out here for the good stuff, which is nicer to my car than the 89 octane... but I don't have to go that far, and mom and dad pay for gas... but it STILL makes me cringe... Anyway, I've been driving for a year. I like it... it's easier to go places and not feel bad for keeping mom out late. Not to mention getting to school and being able to leave right when it's finished, as opposed to waiting around forever for a ride afterwards...
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on May 24, 2006 18:54:55 GMT -5
Yeah... that's how it is in Montana. Schnykies, I would die to pay 2.89!!!! Eh. And my poor car... the only one of its gauges that works it the RPM meter, and that only works when it's warm out. The speedometer has been dead for a year and a half, the odometer almost that long, and the gas gauge died about half way through this year. That's an adventure...
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Post by Trinity on May 24, 2006 19:42:16 GMT -5
Yeah, our gas light died recently. Now we just know that when it gets down to around a quarter of a tank, it would be a good idea to get gas in the near future...
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on May 25, 2006 20:31:47 GMT -5
WoOt! The gas station on my way home from school was $2.81 today! I think prices may be coming down!
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on May 26, 2006 1:41:34 GMT -5
(thinks about this) Okay...so if gas prices are about $1.05 CAD per litre here, rounded up from 1.04 and nine tenths of a cent...conversion time.
1 gallon [US, liquid] = 3.7854118 liters
Okay...and currency...
1.05 Canadian Dollar = 0.94140 US Dollar
...What does this mean... (tries to remember something from her years of math lessons) Okay. So I should be able to get the result from multiplying those two conversion results.
...Comes to 3.56. Ack! If that's correct, then my blood is being siphoned from my veins every time I go to fill up...and that's the regular gas. It just came down from $1.10 per litre, too...
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Post by lexa on May 27, 2006 16:49:42 GMT -5
Okay, there are a few prices in the area at the moment, but having done the maths from £s to $s and litres to gallons... The most expensive in the area comes out to about $6.12 a gallon and the cheapest about $3.82 a gallon. Okay, I really AM glad that I'm not driving! That's just... harsh. There's a reason public transport, walking and shared cars are popular. But I live in the middle of nowhere, so maybe that has an effect on the petrol prices as well?
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on May 27, 2006 23:50:56 GMT -5
Could be due to having to ship it out as well, which costs the petrol shippers some petrol? Although the stuff is cheaper where I live than it is in Winnipeg (the nearest major city...heck, the only major city...snrk), so... I couldn't say for certain. I guess they hike the prices where they know they'll be able to get away with it.
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Post by lexa on May 28, 2006 8:52:20 GMT -5
I guess you're right, although the North Sea fields shouldn't add too much shipping costs. But yeah, they probably do just add whatever they can. I don't know about prices in Coventry (the nearest city) so I can't compare. But I tell you, I'll drive as little as I can once I get a licence!
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Post by Morgana Le Fay on May 30, 2006 8:46:29 GMT -5
One word - OWWWW. Why are gas prices so high anyways? It's highway robbery. Literally. I don't have my lisence yet. My bro The Two (Esps) and I are going to do Driver's Ed this fall then fight over the car until next fall when I go to college.
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Post by Trinity on May 30, 2006 11:40:15 GMT -5
Our prices are up to $3.57.... I really want an electric car right about now. Or a cute little Honda Civic that gets 35 miles to the gallon. But you can't buy a car on half time minimum wage, especially if you keep getting other stuff... *needs to learn a bit of self control and open a bank account*
Yeah, we'll probably half to get another car next year when my brother starts driving. Mom already drives the truck, and I won't drive it simply because it's a monster and I'm afraid I'd do some damage parking it. My brother will probably get the Jeep, much to his extreme happiness *not*. So I'll probably end up with the new car, hopefully *crosses fingers*.
Unless they make me ride my bike to the University. But there is a MONSTER hill between my house and it... they wouldn't do that... would they?
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on May 31, 2006 23:05:27 GMT -5
What if you get one of those bikes that has that little motor on it which stores up energy as you pedal, and then when you're tired you switch it on and let it do some work? At least, I think that's how those things were made... Hee. Yes...the best way to vocalise the indignity of it all. And then there's this, too, which has already been circulating for a while, but somehow I never get tired of it:
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Post by Morgana Le Fay on Jun 1, 2006 7:45:30 GMT -5
Wooot! LOL That is good. Love to see proof that other ppl have a sense of humor.
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Post by Trinity on Jun 1, 2006 10:36:07 GMT -5
It wouldn't make it up the hill!!! Maybe I could negotiate a Vespa scooter if things get to tha point... but I don't know if that would make it either.... It is a BIG HILL!!! My CAR has trouble getting up it sometimes if the light at the bottom was red...
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Jun 2, 2006 0:32:59 GMT -5
Wow. I almost forgot those kinds of hills existed. Most of my scenery goes somewhat like this, you see:
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The bump isn't a hill. It's a line of trees to break the wind so that the farm's soil doesn't get blown away. Truth.
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