What Happened ???

Let me apologize for the hiatus. Warm weather and sunshine had me living in a bubble of happiness and outdoor drinking, and I had seriously neglected my surly side. With the return of the cold, slushy snow, and the US officially being in the big "R" I have gotten back to my roots and started noticing all those things that really chap my ass. I'll start off slow and shake off the dust as I try to get back into the swing of things. Hopefully Bones Esq. will join me and share some of his own interesting tidbits. Here are some of the little things that have been grinding my gears over the past few months:

• Bailouts/Socialism
• Lions Football
• Celebrity political endorsements
• Sarah Palin being a serious VP candidate
• Paying extra for HD cable when HD tvs are the only thing you can buy
• underage olympic chinese gymnasts
• a boring world series (can't even remember who played in it)
• a shrinking 401(k).......I'm getting old
• getting old

Another one of the things that's been grinding my gears lately is gas stations. With the increase in gas prices over the summer we saw a new trend appear. One price for gas if we paid cash, and another price if we paid with credit card. The reasoning behind this was the profit margins were a certain amount per gallon and when gas was at $4.00+/gallon the credit card fees that are charged as a percentage of total cost were increasing and eating into the profit. Well now gas is down to $1.75/gallon again. But guess what? There are still two prices for gas. One for cash, one for credit, and its really starting to bother me. As the prices keep falling, I keep expecting to see the two prices disappear, but its not happening. Now I know I shouldn't let this bother me. If some owner of a gas station wants to capitalize on idiots who are willing to pay more for using their credit card, more power to him. I just don't like how we're all supposed to forget what the original reasoning behind it was. As soon as the habit of paying two different prices was created I should have known we'd all become the ones who cover their credit cards fees once the prices go down again and we're expected to have short memories and never remember the times of a single price. Shame on me for being the sucker who uses the credit card price still and shame on other business owners who never adopted a "two-price" philosophy for their products. Welcome back to Daily Bizisms and thanks for listening to what's been really grinding my gears.