First-World Problems...

I have several five-gallon gas cans, because I learned my lesson that fuel supplies are not exactly robust when the entire power grid is down. "Super-Storm Sandy" (what a stupid name!) was bad enough, but an unnamed Nor'easter many years ago knocked out power for 10 days, and fuel for my generator was problematic.

But our brilliant government, in its infinite wisdom, mandated those stupid valves on new gas cans that do nothing but guarantee a huge amount of spilled fuel. So I took a pair of pliers and went to town...ripping out the valves and leaving the solid nozzles...which also sucked, but such is life.

But I got sick of spilling even a little bit of fuel, so I replaced the solid nozzles with cheapo flexible ones that work great!

Oh...do you see the tire valve that I installed? That's because the government doesn't think that these cans needed an air vent other than the useless one in the complicated valve, which is now gone!

Maybe this isn't exactly a First-World Problem. Maybe this is an expression of my growing disgust with government and its inability to do anything correctly.

Yeah...I'm going to make another cup of coffee.

posted by CBD at 02:00 PM

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