I’ve only heard of the Hess trucks through this site. I guess it’s an East Coast/Northeastern thing? I know there’s a Hess station in my area, but I never go there because it’s twenty miles away and I usually don’t go to that part of town.

Another thing: do all the gas stations in your area lock down at night and require you to place your orders through a window? I haven’t seen any stores that do that where I live—I’ve seen a couple that have the clerk in a locked booth and which require customers to slide money under an indentation in the counter/glass. I can see the reasons for the practice, but wouldn’t it be such a potential hassle that it would be just as well to close up for the night?

So Matt, is that racoon’s lemonade any good? Hu hu. Be careful, and make sure that it’s real lemonade before you drink it. Some of us remember the lemonade prank in Problem Child 2. If we had snow here, I’d be outside making a snowman. I had fun in 2004 with the snow. I remember my cousin’s kids were under a tree, and I shook the branch, and the snow came falling down on them. It hasn’t snowed in almost 5 years down here. It’s amazing that it actually snowed on Christmas Eve. Of course, 2 days later, the snow was all gone.

Matt, good work on the Advent Calendar.