six weeks to the gallon

[cellio]

I had an ophthalmologist appointment this morning -- previous one got cancelled because the pandemic was in full bloom then, so I was well overdue. (Everything is as expected, fortunately.) When I went out to the car I opened the glovebox to deposit a new insurance card and, out of curiosity, checked my logbook.¹

I last got gas in early March.

I do drive the car around the neighborhood every now and then; I've been told this is important for the brake rotors, which depend on regular friction to keep, I dunno, barnacles or something from building up. But I haven't really gone anywhere. My doctor's office is about seven miles from home, so by recent standards this was an expedition.

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¹ Yes, I keep a paper log for my car -- have since I bought my first car, having learned the habit from my father.²

² Having recently learned how to do footnotes in CommonMark, a flavor of Markdown I had not previously used, I instinctively tried it here. Nope. I don't know what Markdown flavor Dreamwidth uses, but here I need to use <sup> tags to do that.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

That's impressive. I've been buying gas about once a month. However, the last time I got money from an ATM was in March. Since the pandemic got going, I've been using credit cards for everything rather than handle cash. I think there was one time I forgot my credit card and gave a $20 bill to a gas station attendant — and I drove away without coming back inside for change.

[cellio]

My last ATM visit was sometime before all this started, too. Everything that can go on plastic that stays in my hand does so.