I normally fill my car up on the Saturday or Sunday of pay week and this week was no different, but I had hella errands to run because I missed a whole Friday due to some personal stuff. By Sunday, I was down 1/2 tank of gas (ACK!), so on Monday evening, I decided to go ahead and fill up again at $3.57.
Well, actually I was gonna wait another day because the prices here are different almost daily, but my son encouraged me to go ahead and do it because they occassionally have a trick up their sleeve and gank us. (The day gas usually rises in on Wednesday and then constantly drops the rest of the week). So I did *all the while in the back of my mind I'm thinking "What the hell does he know?"*
Well, I'm on the phone Tuesday afternoon with my .......not sure what to call him just yet, but I'm on the phone with MY 
I get further down the road and can't believe that in one day's time it's jumped .22!
I've long suspected that we have some of the highest prices around. We're downstate from Chicago and they're prices on everything should be higher because it's a bigger city, but we're almost always right i<-------->i (eye to eye, slow folks) with them and it pisses me off.
I think our gas was even higher than the DMV area yesterday! Sheesh!
Do your prices jump like that? What are you paying today?
And Go Barack!
