Perhaps an odd subject but this week I've seen gas lines for the first time in nearly thirty years due to a price war. Who can drop their prices the fastest? Yesterday at one of our major Interstate exits - 1.759 and heading south. It was for brand x but brand x gets old beat up cars to shiny new ones with $$$ price tags. Exxon across the street though was at 1.76. In rummaging through family heirlooms a few years back I ran across curious items to me, familiar to those who lived through WWII, some of the little red OPA disks. While by then I'd seen one of the posters from the war, NRA (or something like that); postal savings stamps - this was a new item for me. I'd also seen ration cards and heard the stories of the family about such. My aunt got extra gasoline coupons and coupons for tires because she was a school teacher. I don't know but I believe there were ration boards just like their were draft boards for the war. The closest I've come thus far were the printed gas coupons, never issued, in the early 1970s, the odd-even system in the late 1970s. I'm sure many of you may have had similar experiences. Tim Stowell The UNEXPECTED always happens.