HOWEVER, even I am aware of the gas situation in Georgia! I've tried very hard not to panic or hoard. I've spent a considerable amount of time working to combine trips and plan my route in such a way as to use the least amount of gas. But today I reached a near crisis point. I either needed to find gas, commit to sleeping tonight at my desk or start preparing management for the possibility that I might need to telecommute Friday because I had no fuel in my vehicle to make the trip in tomorrow morning.
I heard Kroger had a truck come in this morning so I left a note on my computer and headed out to see if they had any left at 10:55 AM. The good news is that it was a successful outing. I needed to wait in line for almost 3o minutes, but the pumps didn't close before it was my turn in line. The Kroger people had everything set up in a very organized way; the path roped out, employees in the parking lot to direct traffic, etc. I heard no horn blowing and did not witness any people being ugly or greedy. (Yesterday when I went by that station they had police vehicles there! Not sure what that was all about. I kept right on going.)
So I should now have enough fuel to get me through the weekend. I'm really hoping that by the next time I need fuel, this GA gas crisis will be over! Fortunately, Chloe's football game is home and EJ's soccer game is home at the field 'around the corner'. And I've already made plans to car pool to the band competition on Saturday afternoon.
Kate may need to change her Friday plans. She has set aside Wednesdays and Friday mornings for her Field Experience in the Cumming Elementary School. She would like to attend Chloe's game on Friday evening and spend at least part of the weekend at home. She may have to use sick time for her Friday library hours so she doesn't need to use any extra gas to make the Gainesville-Cumming (for school)-Gainesville (for library work hours)-Cumming (back home) trip. Hopefully, her supervisor will understand.
I did not enjoy the football game last week. I'm a party-pooper, I know. But it was an away game which means as visitors we get the crappy seats. The section had the seats too close and there were too many of us! I sat next to a JV football coach and some of his players (there to observe the Varsity team) and listened to them make fun of the band! I had my band shirt on; just how slow are they? Adding injury to insult, the boys had to get up and out of their seats about every 10 minutes so they were constantly climbing over me! I had no where else to go or I would have moved. I was sitting close enough to the band to get a couple pictures of Chloe.(can you find her?) But because we had so many people in the stands, she wasn't able to sit with me during her 3rd Quarter break like she usually does. Tomorrow's game is home and I plan to get there early and stake out PLENTY of personal space.
