And what would you do without gas?

Well, that's what many Georgians, especially Atlantians are trying to figure out. What can I do and what can I eliminate if I don't have gas? Who knew it would get so bad. I walk outside and I hear the hustle and bustle of cars passing by, as if nothing changed, as if there were no "gas crisis". Friday night was a fun night, huh dad? Knowing the present situation of gas here in Atlanta, I knew that I needed to minimize where I went and have done pretty good the last week. Well, Friday I was on a little less than a 1/4 of a tank and knew I had to get gas sometime. My dad was a little closer to empty then I, well, you could say the needle was sitting right on empty. So, Friday I must have called 15-20 gas stations in Kennesaw and Marietta to see who would be getting gas. Most of the responses that I got were "hahaha, no, no gas". So, I would insist on asking, "when do you plan on getting gas, anytime soon" and generally would get the response "not a clue, not any time soon". And then there were gas stations who had just received gas and it was already gone in less than a 6 hour span of time, usually it takes a gas station 3-7 days to empty their gas tanks. So, I finally got one station in Marietta that would be getting gas on Saturday. I was excited, even called my parents to tell them so they could be prepared to go to the gas station on Saturday. Well, I thought I would try one more gas station, just about 2 miles from my parents house, to see if they had gas or anticipated getting it anytime soon. Shock - they were going to be getting gas at 6pm. It was 3pm and I knew I had to be there. So, I called my parents back and told them that they needed to be at the BP before 6pm. Well, I packed a few things (not knowing if I would run out of gas, get to the gas station and them not having, etc., I was just trying t be prepared) up and made sure I was on the road over to the gas station by 5:30pm. Well, that was my plan. I thought I would stop off at the store first and then head over to the gas station, but when I passed the gas station at 4:30pm, there was already a line. I called my dad to make sure he was on his way and we were both in line by 4:45pm. So, we wait in anticipation of gas coming at 6pm, the gas attended promised - 6pm or earlier. We all eagerly waited. It got close to 5:30pm and we found out that the gas would be there between 6pm and 9pm. Wow, now we had a couple of hours with no guaranteed time that the gas was going to be there. So, both my dad and I got out of our cars and decided to be good citizens and let the other poor folks in line know that there really was no gas and we were all jut waiting in anticipation that the gas was going to be there some time between 6pm and 9pm, with no guarantee that it was going to be there at all. It felt like I talked to over a thousand people, it probably was close to a couple hundred, but it sure felt like a thousand :--). As I am getting ready to tell another group of cars that there really was no gas, a gentleman said "I just followed him in, the gas guy is coming, he's coming". I told him that he better not be lying :-). I went and told everyone that had been waiting that the the gas guy was coming, the gas guy was coming. Sure enough, within 2 minutes the gas truck came .... and went right by the gas station. you should have seen every one's faces - disappointment. And then, around the corner came the gas truck, he needed to come into the gas station from a different angle. So e started organized all the cars out of the way so the gas truck could pull in without any problems. We were sooooo excited that the gas guy was there. By the time the gas guy arrived, it was about 7:30pm and it seemed like a hundred+ cars were waiting in line for gas. They were double parked on the two roads to get to the gas station. By the time the gas guy finished filling the tanks and we were able to pump, it was able 8pm. An interesting evening to say the least :-).