re: Ever stomp on rubber gas station tubes as a kid?

quote:

---

Never was able to trigger it on my bike though.

---

I guess Mr. T.E. Wells had his set lower. Me and my buds would run across it on our bikes and ding ding it would go. I will never forget the smell of that place. Oil, gas, grease, cigarette/cigar/pipe smoke and of course that glue he would use to apply patches when repairing a flat tire.

Smear some glue of the puncture, click goes the Zippo lid, flick goes the little striker wheel and POOF goes the glue up in flames. Count to three and put out the little glue fire the apply the rubber patch and run the pressing tool back and forth about 100 times.

Yep, I'm old