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Where Can a Guy Get Some Gas?
By Nick | October 30, 2008
Yesterday morning I had a wild hair and decided I was going to go out the the grocery store and buy some steaks for dinner that night. I picked out two great looking steaks and brought them back home to get them ready for the evening. I made a marinade of red wine, olive oil, Montreal Steak Seasoning, and garlic and let the steaks soak all day. These steaks were going to be great….I could already taste them.
Around 7pm Christy showed up and it was time to fire up the grill! So I go outside to start up the grill and notice that there isn’t much of a flame coming up through the grates. SHIT! We’re out of gas. I don’t know about you, but every time I go to get a propane refill I have problems with the stupid people that work at the K-mart…or wherever I go to get a refill for that matter. And last night was no exception.
I pull up to the garden center in a mad rush (I wanted to get back to my precious steaks), parked my car at the sidewalk and ran up to the garden center door. It was locked. Then I park the car in the parking lot and go into the front door up to the customer service desk (because I know the clerks at the checkout line know nothing about how to get the propane,) and am greeted by a warm, welcoming line of about 10 people! CRAP! My steaks are ready to be grilled and I am sitting in a line to get propane. Not good.
I wait about 5 minutes and 2 people get helped in the line…no big deal. Another 10-15 minutes go by and only one more person is helped. I wanted to stab the redneck arguing with the customer service rep about how much his $19.99 skateboard deck sucked ass. At that point I was fed up. I huffed and puffed then threw my arms up and left K-mart. Next stop 7-11.
I get to 7-11 and see that there is no one in the store! SCORE! Soon I would be sitting at my table with a juicy, succulent steak melting in my mouth. I couldn’t wait.
I walk into the store and tell the lady I need a propane refill and she looks at me like I have a second head. “It’s winter time…don’t you know that people don’t grill outside in the winter?” First of all, its not winter! Second of all….if it was winter and I wanted to grill out in the middle of a blizzard, I would! So after talking to her about grilling in the winter for 5 minutes she decided that it was okay to sell it to me and went back into the office to look for the key to the propane tank holding area. Guess what? It took 3 people and a phone call to find the freaking key. At this point there are flames shooting from my ear.
ALL I WANT IS TO EAT MY STEAK!!
So all in all it took me about 30 -45 minutes to get propane from a K-mart and a 7-11 that I can walk to from my house.
The moral of this story is…always have a back up propane tank. I plan on getting mine this weekend. This will never happen to me again.
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October 30th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Early on I noticed the fatal flaw that sent your whole operation into a tailspin – Montreal Steak Seasoning already has garlic in it. There’s no need to add more garlic to your Marinade!
October 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Nick is Italian…there is no such thing as too much garlic!
The steaks were so amazing. Yum.