Model Forum / General / Models / May 2006

Kind of off topic but...

I visited Hawaii back in '87 and people warned me about the high price
of gasoline.  On Kauai, you really can't drive too far but I eventually
needed to fill up the rental car tank.  I pulled into a gas station and
looked at the pump and the price was actually a little CHEAPER than my
mainland gas station.  I felt like I was getting a pretty good deal and
my friends had no idea what they were talking about.  As I was pumping
the gas, it dawned on me that the price was per LITER not GALLON.  With
about four liters to the gallon, I now realized what people had warned
me about  ;^)

BTW:  I didn't see a single model kit in all my travels on Kauai - and
I did look.  When we arrived in Honolulu, I found a combination army
surplus store and hobby shop that had a few kits, but I didn't buy
anything.  I figured it was my honeymoon and I didn't want to start out
on the wrong foot with my new wife.  It must have worked - we're still
married and I have still manged to amass an impressive collection of
(mostlyy unbuilt) kits.  ;^)   I think she got tired and jealous of my
involvement with "fine scale modeling" & IPMS and she recently joined a
quilt club and has taken up quilting.  Unfortunately, she's turned out
to be a better quilter than I am a modeler.

Martin