The Union 76 (now just 76) brand is currently part of the Conoco-Philips company - Unocal sold it to Philips (as it was at the time) in 1997, so some old Philips 66 and Conoco stations probably picked up the 76 branding. This was around the same time that Unocal sold their midwest operation, which was formed in the…

When I started driving in 1990, the only stations that were full service were also repair shops. I think this might be why they offered it at all - there was usually someone readily available to pump gas, whereas in a station with a cashier and mini mart that person has to lock up to go out there to keep people from…

Yeah, the only ones I can think of were also all repair shops - a Union 76, a Shell across the street, a former Texaco, and a former Standard/Amoco. All of them had garages attached and did repairs and servicing, and I’m pretty sure all of them offered full service till they stopped selling fuel sometime in the 90's.…

You’ve been lucky. The vast majority of the time, if I have a long wait at a self checkout, it’s because the people in front of me can’t handle the simple task of scanning a bar code and putting their item in a plastic bag and picking the correct form of payment.

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Paint Chip Hemi

They’re for suburban dads whose wives won’t let them buy pickup trucks.

It kind of worked, though!

I don’t claim to be an expert in fashion (women’s or men’s), but I do feel qualified to say, man those are some ugly clothes.

I desperately wished for a comma to be there, so it would read RECEIVED A “WEDGIE” BY UNDERWEAR BY HIS OLDER BROTHER, PENIS PAIN 

You know how it goes, you settle in for a little nude foosball, have a few too many adult beverages, things get a bit heated, and the next thing you know you’re in a passionate embrace with your opponent and you get your dick stuck under one of the bars. It’s called foosballus interruptus. Happens all the time in the…

I knew it was an in-period crash test, but man, it still hurts to look at that photo.

I may be thinking of Poodle Springs - I’m sure I’ve read both.

I would do that with wine but it’s really hard to put change into one of those boxes.

I wonder if it had already been planned out or partially written. Not too long ago a new Dashiell Hammett novel was published using unfinished screenplays that he’d written.

I think I originally started with G, because I’d spotted it at the bookstore and it had a VW Beetle on the cover. Weird reason to pick it up I guess!

Call Mr. Pao, that’s my name, that name again is Mr. Pao!

Hell, if they get rid of pennies, what will I put in that oversized plastic Corona bottle I got on spring break in ‘95? I finally fill that bad boy up and I should have enough to buy a sweet leather jacket!

I swear that the mall record store I worked at had carpeting in the same pattern as those seats.

Back in 2007 the (aftermarket) CD player in my car was stolen overnight, and they took a little 6-disc wallet I had in there. Each disc was a burned mix, so no great loss, and they left the two “real” CD’s I had in the car (I think it was a copy of the Beatles #1 and Paul Weller’s Illumination, both of which were…

I haven’t had a CD player in my car till I got my current one two years ago (previous one had an aftermarket head unit that got stolen, which I replaced with the original cassette deck). It’s a single disc in-dash. I’ve used it exactly three times, when I’ve purchased a CD at the used record store and listened to it…