To the Editor:
Re “That ’70s Energy Crisis,” by Susan Straight (Op-Ed, May 1):
In the summer of 1979, my 60-year-old mother was in line for gasoline when a woman cut into the line in front of the man directly ahead of my mother. Incensed, the man got out of his car and approached the woman’s car window. She pulled up her window and locked the doors as he berated her to no avail.
He got back in his car and stewed for a moment. He then got out again, used his key to unlock his gasoline cap (locking gas caps became commonplace during the gas crisis), removed the woman’s unsecured gas cap and replaced it with his, locked the cap and threw the key into a nearby sewer.
The woman, having witnessed all this, pulled away.
JOHN WILLIAMS
New York, May 1, 2011
Note from KBJ: That'll teach her to cut in line.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 