Picket Fences!

So.. I get this email the other day, urging us to boycott gas. The writer's idea: boycott specific stations and companies, informing them in advance that we are not buying from them until the prices get back under control. What the writer didn't tell us is what to do if the only gas station in town belongs to the company we're supposed to be boycotting or, worse, if the only gas station in town is the place we work.

The movie started playing in my mind:

Me: *dials the local gas station* **brrriiing brrriiing...** **brrriiing brrriiing...** **brrriiing brrriiing...**
Gas Stop Gas Stop. Mitch.
Me: Mitch? Yah. This is Casey up the road
Gas Stop: Hey Casey, how goes?
Me: Good. You?
Gas Stop: Good ta hear. Don't see you much anymore. How's the back?
Me: Good, good. No change there.

Gas Stop: Good ta hear. Hey, heard you were in the hospital.
Me: Nah. Someone got their wires crossed. How's Nancy?
Gas Stop: Good. She's took the kids up to her mom's for the weekend.
Me: Yah? How long's she up for?
Gas Stop: Week mebbe. Mebbe I'll get some fishin' in.
Me: Good, good. Enjoy.

Gas Stop: Need somethin'?
Me: Yah. Thought you should know I'm joinin' in on that there boycott.
Gas Stop: Yah? Okie.

Gas Stop:*pause* You ever get that Bronco back running?
Me: Nah. I don't drive much anymore, what with the back.
Gas Stop: Yah? Okie. *pause* You thinkin' to sell that yet?
Me: Yah maybe.?
Gas Stop: Bob'll be driving next year.
Me: Good car for a kid.
Gas Stop: '85, yah?
Me: Yah. Needs work. Starter, tranny. Still got that leak.
Gas Stop: Yah? I can fix that. *pause* So you think what you want for it?
Me: Yah. Let me get back to ya.

Gas Stop: Okie. *pause* So you're joinin' that boycott, eh?
Me:: Yah. Just thought you should know.

Gas Stop: Okie. So's Frank up the hill.
Me:: Yah? Thought he moved away.
Gas Stop: Yah. He's back though.
Me: Ah okie.
Gas Stop: Okie. I got someone puliin' up. Let me know on that Bronco, eh?
Me:Yah sure. You bet.
Gas Stop: Later. *hangs up*

And thus the Great Boycott of Chevron stations begins, tempers raging, picket signs waving!