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Message:: <p>[QUOTE="AfterShock, post: 488752, member: 10604"]<font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">I don't know if it's so much a "conformist" thang or closer to acceptance.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">For instance, a non-conformist might prefer to call a hammer a "mallet". But they're not the same thing.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">In the Big truck truckin' industry, things have names to help curb a problem.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">If someone pumped gasoline into a diesel's tanks --- <b><font size="4"><span style="color: Red">BOOM!</span></font></b><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3"></font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3"><br /></font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3"><i>BuT!</i></font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3"><i>He/She TOLD me to put "gas" in it.</i></font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3"><br /></font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3">Y'all can be as non-conformist as y'all want to. You have that right.</font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3">Just keep in mind that has it's responsibilities, just the same. </font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3">And there may be side effects, like attention being drawn to you. </font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3">If you can handle the spotlight, that approach might work for you.</font></span></span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><span style="color: Red"><span style="color: Black"><font size="3"><br /></font></span></span></font></font></font> </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">That IS serious! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies-vb/roundies/biggrin_25511.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":biggrin_25511:" unselectable="on" /></font></font> <font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Man-0-Man --- I know THAT feelin'!</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">My co-driver and I were treated to a motel room for the night across the street from the T/A in Mesquite, Texas.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">We were bobtail and had just re-fueled  before parking in the motel parking lot.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">We lost an easy 75 gallons that night -- and my fuel bonus for the month suffered.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">MaN!</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">I hate being ripped off! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies-vb/roundies/biggrin_25510.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":biggrin_25510:" unselectable="on" /> </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></font> </p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Ya reckon the companies have fuel theft insurance?</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Their taxes are based partly on fleet fuel mileage averages. Too many thefts could cost them big bucks in additional taxes. </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">And I think the thefts will only escalate. </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Imagine the potential outcome if the drivers </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">start carrying 9m/m (Craftsman) cap lock keys.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">The fight for world oil in it's rawest form.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">We'll be fightin' each other. </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">I hear only the strong will survive.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">But I also hear the meek shall inherit the Earth.</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Is that an oxymoron? </font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Or Prophesy? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies-vb/roundies/biggrin_25525.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":biggrin_25525:" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>