Currently reading: "Sweetheart" by Chelsea Cain
In Michigan, when a person buys a winning lottery ticket, the place that sold it gets a percent from the government for selling it. A gas station owner in Detroit got $2000 off his sale of a $1,000,000 lottery ticket, and as a gift to his customers, he was going to deduct 20 cents per gallon from the going rate of gas for a limited time. Today was the day of his giveaway.
The library where I work is about a 50 minute drive from that gas station, but this afternoon I helped a regular by calling to make sure the promotion was still on so he could drive the 2 hour round trip to save less than $5.
I feel like my time is worth more than $2.50 an hour, but maybe that is just me.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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