I stopped at the gas station the other day because one of my car’s tires looked a bit low. They charge us for air here on the Isle of Long. When I was a young man, it was free. They also used to check the oil and wash the windshield for free but times change. I had my two quarters ready to drop into the machine but then I noticed that the price had gone up to a dollar. So I figured I’d ask the man in the bulletproof-glass booth why the price was now double what it had been on my last visit.