Holy Thursday
One thing I never expected to witness this year was the price of gas dropping to less than $2/ gallon. I recall four decades ago when oil was in such short supply that we waited in long lines to fill up at the gas pumps. Not only did the price of gas really begin to climb but also the services we once took for granted quickly became things of the past. Today self-service is the norm and when we fill up, we rarely see an attendant, certainly not one who checks our tires and oil.
Neighborhood gas stations, as we once knew them, are a rare sight today. The very name, service station, strikes me as a misnomer; after all, self-service really means no service! With the use of ATM’s, vending machines, self-service cash registers, along with self-service gas stations, we have grown used to the notion of no service. How regrettable! We have programed ourselves to look only after our own needs and not necessarily the needs of others. …