Re: No AAA member, what if I get a flat tire?

>Your obligation to use your membership privileges responsibly
>isn't to the auto club; it's to your fellow auto club *members.*

According to whom? Oh, according to our resident asshole-hypocrite. 

>
>Given that you're all drawing on finite resources, especially
>at certain times of day, it's a no-brainer to conclude that
>all members should feel absolutely free to make use of those
>resources *when necessary,* but resist the urge to make use of
>them when it _isn't_ really necessary.  

LOL! There are more tow trucks than disabled cars on any given day. If there
wasn't, AAA wouldn't be making a profit.


>
>
>> If I can deal with it myself it's a lot more efficient to 
>> do so, and I would.  If I can't, it's not going to worry 
>> me one bit that I might deprive some more deserving person
>> of receiving service before me rather than after me.
>
>That's as it should be -- with the proviso that if something
>(like changing a tire) is trivially easy do, and you simply
>haven't bothered to learn yet, you have an ethical obligation
>to acquire that knowledge.  Think of it as "empowerment," if
>that makes the idea any more palatable.
>

Gee, all the ladies must be impressed when you drive-by screaming" change your
own tire, dyke!" LOL!



>
>> I think you're worrying needlessly about the morality of
>> using a purchased service.  When you go to the grocery
>> store, do you avoid buying the last package of half-price
>> cheese because somebody else MIGHT need it more?
>
>Silly analogy.   Everybody needs food equally, and since there
>are always other supermarkets nearby, one could always go to
>one of the others if he really, really, had to have that cheese.
>(Which I've done a few times when I've had a "brie jones," in-
>cidentally.  Brie and Stoned Wheat Thins are a _sine qua non_
>with martinis out on the deck on a summer evening.  And being 
>a Republican, I like my martinis.)

You're a GOPer? That explains A LOT.


>
>Tow trucks, however, are a finite resource.  Especially during
>commute periods.
>

Who says? A senile GOPer hypocrite.... 


>
>> BTW, I just saw a book called "Who Moved My Cheese?"  What a
>> great title!  The book itself couldn't possibly be anywhere
>> near as good as
>
>Saw it at Borders the other day.  I haven't looked at it, though.
>
>The story is that Werner Erhard, the founder of the "est" self-
>actualization movement, originated that analogy.  
>
>

I bet you can't afford a book. Explains why you read it at the store.
Hypocrite.





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