TELL ME WHY NOBODY HAS GAS?

In case you are from another region or just haven't been watching the news, most of the Southeast are suffering from gas shortages. Hurricane Gustav & Ike damaged & closed most of the refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana whom account for most if not all of our gas in the metro Atlanta area. Ergoooo, we are so lowwwwwww on gas. I mean, at any point during the day you have to drive around to at least, at least 3-5 gas stations to find one with gas. If so you'd still have to wait in line after the 12 cars in front of you at each pump. It's realllyyy bad. The refineries are recovering & are getting back to production again but it doesn't seem to be fast enough.

We've been cool for the past week or so because I got a $100 BP gas card from my job so we haven't had to pay for gas. And the BP that we go to usually have gas so we haven't felt any negative effects all week... until last night.

Ok, so my plan was to go to Target & pick up some dinner on the way because I was gonna be watching the Heroes Season 3 premiere all night & wasn't gonna cook. I went to Publix & got the Ultimate 3 meat with garlic Digiorno pizza for the 1st time. It was so good by the way... But anyways, as I left Publix I realized that my tank was on E. No sweat. I drove to the QT that I usually go to & the lines were sooooo long that I couldn't even turn into the station. So I went to a BP down the street. Out of gas. So I went BACK to the QT & figured I might as well wait in line cuz I don't feel like searching for gas stations on E right now. Got there & the whole lot was nearly empty. I was like "Yay it died down." Went in to pay & the lady said that they were out of gas. Are you kidding me?! Ughhh!!! No wonder why everybody left. Makes sense.

Mind you, this was about 7:30pm & I had to get back to the house by 9pm to watch Heroes. So I'm like, well, I'll just head to Target & find gas on my way home. So I went to Target, couldn't find what I was looking for, didn't see anyone around to ask for help & their "Need help?" button at electronics wasn't even working. So I picked up their desk phone & called the operator. Waited for about 5 minutes & nobody came so I hunted down a floor person that wasn't even from that department & he helped me find what I was looking for. I didn't blame them though, they're always good with customer service. Shoot, they were probably understaffed cuz their workers probably couldn't find gas to get to work.

I checked out, left Target & headed to the BP that I usually go to. They ALWAYS have gas. Well, for the last week anyway when nobody else did. So drove alll the way there & they didn't have any gas. FUCK!!! I turned around (in the opposite direction of my house might I add) & saw a Citgo that had gas. Couldn't turn into it from one entrance so I went around & turned in at the other. It was a small station with only 4 pumps & the lines were ridiculously long. There were maybe 6 cars in the middle turning lane waiting to turn into the place on both sides.

I finally got in line & waited my turn. All of a sudden two cops pull up and look around. I guess because they saw the volume & wanted to keep things orderly, which was good. They were walking around & this older fat guy said something to one of them & they headed over to my car. I was like "What the fuck?" The cop said that I was blocking the "flow" of the pumps so I had to go around to the other side. Apparently all the other cars were waiting in one direction & I was going opposite. Are you kidding me?! That was the only place I could move to cuz there were so many cars. And my tank was on that side anyway.

The cop was all like "Look I don't want any trouble, just move." I rolled my eyes, shook my head & said "Don't worry about it. I'll go around." Man did I want to choke that fat bastard that said something to him. Or soak him in gas & light him on fire. You want some fucking gas?! Here's your damn gas! Ughhh!!! Ok maybe not that extreme but visualizing it made me feel better.

I drive around to the other entrance & couldn't turn right into the place cuz it was freaking back up remember?! UGHHH. So I turn on my blinker & waited. How about some other cop came right up & fucking turned his lights on. I was like "What the fuck?" He was about to say something to me on the speakers but the other cop came up to my car & said that I have to move. I'm like "Well, the other cop just told me to go over here." "Well, but you can't turn in & you can't block traffic so you're gonna have to get in that middle turning lane behind those cars or go somewhere else. I think that guy wants to give you a ticket" *breathe Hanh breathe*

So I just drove off. lol. The cop didn't go after me though. I guess he got a signal from the other guy or something. By this time it was 8:45pm, my needle was BELOW the E, still don't have any gas, got kicked out of line, TWICE, and was about to miss my Heroes premiere. I was HEATED!!!

I drove down another street for a couple of minutes & finally found a Chevron that had gas. Whew! Thank God! I don't think my blood pressure couldn't taken any more gas hunts for the night.

When I got home it was 8:55 & we had 5 minutes to prepare the tv. By the time we set everything up (cuz I wanted to record it) we had missed a couple of minutes from the beginning. It's all good though. I caught the rest of it & boy was it GOOOD!!!! It made my night so much better. By the time my pizza was done I didn't eat it for another half hour cuz I was so glued to the TV. lol.

All in all boys & girls, today we learned that:
~ Hanh did not like people last night.
~ The economy is getting more & more screwed up by the day. First the houses, banks, hurricanes & now a gas shortage.
~ Heroes & pizza makes her happy/ feel better.

Now stop reading this & go get some gas if you live down here. Don't get to E & go through the same thing I did.


GO!