Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Not quite full serve / almost full circle

As a kid growing up in California, I remember full service gas stations. A nice man (it was always a man) would fill your car up with gas and clean your front and rear windows. Sometimes they would even check your oil. By the time I was a teenager, it was definitely a pump your own world. Gas was still cheap - around $1 a gallon.

Then I moved to Australia, learned to call it petrol, still pumped my own but paid AUD $0.80 a litre. Then I moved to UK, still pumped my own and paid GBP £0.80 a litre! (that is roughly US$ 6.50 a gallon)

Now in Qatar, there is again a nice man who fills my car up with gas but doesn't do windows or check the oil and I pay 0.80 Qatari Rials a litre (about US$ 0.85 a gallon).

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