I just read spudcon's comment, then saw this in an
article on denverpost.com:
Quote:
"Sixty-two dollars," Teresa Avila said to no one in particular.
"They want $62. Sixty-two frigging dollars of my money that I definitely can't afford," she continued when realizing she had an audience. "I could do a lot with $62. A whole lot. Sixty-two dollars. I can't believe it. Can you believe it? I can't believe it."
And so it went at a central Denver gas station Monday morning as Avila spent a day's worth of net pay to top off her Dodge Caravan.
The 50-something, self-described "cleaning lady and grandma" was fuming to strangers about oil companies and car companies, George Bush and Dick Cheney and "politicians getting rich off the backs of working people." The term "rip-off" passed her lips more than once during her tirade, as did several expletives not fit for a family newspaper. ...
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Maybe she'll come here and vote in our poll.