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I was hanging out at Heather’s apartment this morning watching The Jerk, a fine film made in 1979. There are a few scenes where the main character works at a gas station, and one particular moment intrigued me, because if you pause the movie at just the right frame, you can see some numbers on the gas pump. For curiosity’s sake, I wanted to know how much gas went for back then. So I got up, grabbed a pen, grabbed a pad of paper, sat back down in front of the TV, and wrote down the gallons sold and total price on my pad, ready to do some divison.

Then Heather glanced at the TV from a conversation with her roommate and casually said “It’s about a dollar per gallon.” I looked down at my pad of paper, and found “$26.74″ and “26.2 gal” written on it.

I went through four years of college. Dammit.

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