.... I just stopped at the Speedway near my friend's house in Grand Blanc (about 50 minutes north of Detroit). I used to live near the station, and on a lovely spring Saturday afternoon like today, it would typically be hopping like an airport. But I guess that $3.97 pg regular on the marquee was like a scarlet letter - there was my car and one other.
I guess more people are enjoying the comforts of home rather than driving to the malls, movies and other diversionary destinations these days.