It’s one thing that gas prices change a lot, but the higher the gas prices go, the more they slow down the pumps. This annoys me. Much. It’s not like it’s my imagination. It takes much longer to pump expensive fuel than cheap fuel. This is certainly by design. Much as computers made the taxman ask people to come by the next day for their tax return even though it was done and printed 5 minutes after they left. The taxman couldn’t justify his fee given the time that the results were made available. When computers were originally placed at airline counters, a delay was built into the programming because of all of the reports from the staff that they didn’t trust the results since they were so immediate. Programmers had to build in the “think” time so that the results would be trusted. In this fast paced world, seems “the man” has to slow things down so there seems to be a value in it. It just makes me more impatient and fuels my impulse to announce this to the world.