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Originally Posted by striperman36
Later that winter, my grandfather bought a gasoline-powered pump. The next morning, my father started the pump and filled the first bucket, excited at how easy his ordeal had become. The next thing he knew, his feet were dangling off the ground and my grandfather's fist was in his chest, pinning him against the barn wall. Terrified, my dad gasped, "Pop, what did I do?" The engine of the pump was going "ka-thump, ka-thump." My grandfather growled, "You hear them thumps? Every one of them thumps is a nickel!"
He was furious that my father had not turned off the engine between buckets.
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while i commend your grandfathers thriftiness...
gasoline wasn't consumed that quick ...because in those days the price of a gallon of gas was 10 cents
then it became 11 cents in july of 32 with a 0ne cent tax added
per gallon...
so if his analogy were correct he'd be consuming 1/2 gallon of gas per ka- thump for it to equal a nickel.