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Went to the petrol station tonight to get some oil. My engine's leaking the stuff faster now. I need to buy oil roughly every month. I don't know what I'll do when my car dies .. I can't afford a new one .. or even a decent old one.

So I go to pay for the oil and the station attendant says "anything else with that? ....... some chocolate?"

Hold on a minute!!!

Now if he'd said "some petrol??" ... I wouldn't have thought "how odd" ...

Chocolate isn't something I would have asked about if someone was buying oil from me at a petrol station. Maybe they have some kind of bet going on with the employees there .. like who can sell the most chocolates.... Maybe the prize is ... I dunno ... Chocolate!!

Of course I said "no, just the oil" and tell him he can keep the change (5c .. I'm too kind, I know) And I say "bye"

And he says "See ya, boss"

Boss!!!!!!

I fucking hate it when people call me Boss, Champ, Chief, Friend. It just sounds kinda condescending.

I know ... I'm weird.

UPDATE: Because I forgot something ..... (of course)

I was thinking while I was driving home today about the state of music (and all art I guess, but music mainly)

(using only music as an example)
There must be only a finite number of combinations that are possible with 12 notes (and really, there are only 12 in the western scale). I was never much good with numbers, but I'm guessing even though all the different combinations you can come up with using 12 numbers is realllllllllllly fucking high, there is a lot of music that's been played/recorded.

I wonder how long before we can say it's really all been done. With every new band that comes out there are comparisons to some other band that came before. And a lot of riffs remind people of other riffs, and some things just sound like a different spin on something that's already been done.

And don't even get me started on beats (although I think there are way more possible combinations there)

I'm not sure I needed to write that now that i did ....