You are too old if you remember.......

[Rothman]

Anyone had a discrepancy between their trip and main odometers?

[kphoger]

Anyone had a discrepancy between their trip and main odometers?

No.  But...

1.  I use the trip odometer reading to calculate fuel economy, because it gives me tenths of a mile.

2.  I use the main odometer reading to see how "long ago" in mile-terms something happened.

3.  If the trip odometer somehow gets reset mid-tank, then I can always just use the main odometer reading to calculate mileage instead.

[1995hoo]

Anyone had a discrepancy between their trip and main odometers?

I got in the habit of using the main odometer when I had a car that didn't have a trip odometer. I've never noticed a discrepancy, though as kphoger notes the trip meter does have tenths of a mile, and as he also notes the trip meter sometimes gets reset mid-tank, typically if I take the car in for service and for whatever reason they disconnect the battery. That didn't apply in the old days with mechanical odometers, of course.

.... But I don't care what price per gallon I paid at the pump, as I never have any reason to look back at that. ....

I don't remember why I started keeping track of the price. I know I had a reason, I just don't remember what it was.

[kphoger]

I don't remember why I started keeping track of the price. I know I had a reason, I just don't remember what it was.

I remember a college classmate who kept track of it too.  In math class, he plotted pump price against miles per gallon, and then he calculated a trend line.  He was interested in the results and surprised to see that his fuel economy apparently decreased with pump price.  But I saw the graph, and the trend line wasn't all that much of a trend:  it's just what his calculator spit out for what was basically a cloud of dots.  It also didn't factor in time of year or average speed.

[Rothman]

Anyone had a discrepancy between their trip and main odometers?

I got in the habit of using the main odometer when I had a car that didn't have a trip odometer. I've never noticed a discrepancy, though as kphoger notes the trip meter does have tenths of a mile, and as he also notes the trip meter sometimes gets reset mid-tank, typically if I take the car in for service and for whatever reason they disconnect the battery. That didn't apply in the old days with mechanical odometers, of course.

.... But I don't care what price per gallon I paid at the pump, as I never have any reason to look back at that. ....

I don't remember why I started keeping track of the price. I know I had a reason, I just don't remember what it was.

Because we're nerds.

[kphoger]

.... But I don't care what price per gallon I paid at the pump, as I never have any reason to look back at that. ....

I don't remember why I started keeping track of the price. I know I had a reason, I just don't remember what it was.

Because we're nerds.

While that may be the honest and actual reason, I doubt it's the supposed reason he told himself at the time.

[formulanone]

When you didn't pay extra for the privilege of using a credit card; you know, like in 2022.

On the other hand, I guess I could use checks again. (I keep writing "1996" on my checks, and I hate when that happens.)

[Rothman]

When you didn't pay extra for the privilege of using a credit card; you know, like in 2022.

On the other hand, I guess I could use checks again. (I keep writing "1996" on my checks, and I hate when that happens.)

Everyone paid or pays extra...businesses get you for fees assessed on them...

[XamotCGC]

Buying a big bag of potato chips under a 1.00  and getting change back.

[kphoger]

Buying a big bag of potato chips under a 1.00  and getting change back.

Were big bags of potato chips ever less than 70% air?

[kkt]

Pringles.

[kphoger]

Pringles.

I remember Pringles.

[Big John]

Pringles.

Still around, but has become bald.

[dlsterner]

In the same vein as the other snack foods ...

The Frito Bandito as the "spokesman" for Fritos corn chips.

[roadman65]

Yes Pringles is in Circle K Convenience Stores.

[GaryV]

I ate some Pringles yesterday. I admit I am old, but not too old to remember that.

[Rothman]

Yes Pringles is in Circle K Convenience Stores.

Heh.  That's strangely specific given that Pringles are ubiquitous.

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

[hotdogPi]

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

People misinterpreting #1186 as serious, which was a joke reply to #1185, which was an answer to #1184 and not to the thread title.

[Big John]

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

People misinterpreting #1186 as serious, which was a joke reply to #1185, which was an answer to #1184 and not to the thread title.

Unless I see a /s at the end, I will likely see it as being serious.

[Rothman]

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

People misinterpreting #1186 as serious, which was a joke reply to #1185, which was an answer to #1184 and not to the thread title.

Unless I see a /s at the end, I will likely see it as being serious.

Why so serious?

[1995hoo]

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

People misinterpreting #1186 as serious, which was a joke reply to #1185, which was an answer to #1184 and not to the thread title.

Unless I see a /s at the end, I will likely see it as being serious.

Why so serious?

[kphoger]

Buying a big bag of potato chips under a 1.00  and getting change back.

Were big bags of potato chips ever less than 70% air?

Pringles.

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

People misinterpreting #1186 as serious, which was a joke reply to #1185, which was an answer to #1184 and not to the thread title.

For the joke to work, Pringles must have once come in big bags.  Did they ever?

[Big John]

Buying a big bag of potato chips under a 1.00  and getting change back.

Were big bags of potato chips ever less than 70% air?

Pringles.

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

People misinterpreting #1186 as serious, which was a joke reply to #1185, which was an answer to #1184 and not to the thread title.

For the joke to work, Pringles must have once come in big bags.  Did they ever?

Googling this, they first came out in 1968, in pop out cans.

[Rothman]

Buying a big bag of potato chips under a 1.00  and getting change back.

Were big bags of potato chips ever less than 70% air?

Pringles.

Not sure where the idea came from that Pringles are gone...

People misinterpreting #1186 as serious, which was a joke reply to #1185, which was an answer to #1184 and not to the thread title.

For the joke to work, Pringles must have once come in big bags.  Did they ever?

Googling this, they first came out in 1968, in pop out cans.

The More You Know

[Takumi]

You're getting old if you remember Mitch Hedberg talking about Pringles.
https://youtu.be/KPtmyx6VbgM