Deus ex Machina

My favorite story about Tolkien was when he was a professor, and was being a garbage professor on purpose (mumbling and facing away from the class and stuff) so all his students would leave and he could go home to write Lord of the Rings. Except one of his students was Diana Wynne Jones (y’know, author of Howl’s Moving Castle and the Crestomanci series, that Diana Wynne Jones), and he actually said some interesting stuff about writing and storytelling when he wasn’t being the worst professor, and she wanted to hear more of what he had to say. And Tolkien couldn’t leave while he still had students sticking around, so Diana Wynne Jones made Tolkien stay and do his job instead of going home to write about Middle Earth.

You know the best thing about all of this? Gas degrades. It degrades FAST. According to survivalists, who by god take this shit seriously, gas from a pump will last Three to six months. If it’s in a proper container, airtight, and has a low Ethanol percentage. That’s it. Three months, and it’s useless. And tha’ts IF it dosn’t get water in it, cause then it’s totaly useless. These people are wasting god knows how much fuel and money.