A Stimulating Idea

Carl and I consider ourselves good American citizens so, when the President announced the economic stimulus package which was -- and I paraphrase -- not to be used to pay off credit card debt or to be put into savings, we agreed that we would comply.

The long-awaited stimulus package arrived electronically into our checking account and, I'm embarrassed to say, we almost missed it. We received $188.05 which we immediately agreed would not be very stimulating to the economy.

So, we developed Plan B: we put over 3000 miles on our vehicles during the month of May (this is in addition to the miles we drive in our daily lives). We were in our diesel pickup for more than 1/2 of these miles and diesel is selling for almost $5.00/gallon (in fact, we actually saw it for $5.15/gallon in Sanderson).

Just to be clear: we didn't just set out to drive these miles -- we actually had reasons:

1. round trip from New Braunfels to Fort Worth for AAUW gig;
   
2. round trip from New Braunfels to Wichita Falls for AAUW gig;
3. round trip from New Braunfels to Houston for Camp Meeting business coupled with visit with family;
4. round trip from New Braunfels to campground (west of Fort Davis) for Camp Meeting business;
5. round trip from New Braunfels to College Station for AAUW gig.
   

All in all, we are feeling quite smug that we have done our patriotic duty in helping to stimulate the economy. . .