Well, I've not run into anything like that were I go shopping. We're back to the idea y'all have way too much money and maybe not enough common sense or nerve.
So back in the dark ages I worked a lot of Saturdays. Went in pretty darn much when I felt like it, stayed until I got bored, then headed out. Long ago I discovered the hobby of most people was getting drunk on Friday night and using their pay check for booze, not for fuel. So they'd run out on the local interstates. Then in a stupor, they'd hike to a filling station, buy a gas can and some fuel, then hike back to put in just enough to get them home. But they had a problem. Where to put the now empty gas can? So they'd leave it along side the road.
And that's where old Dick came in. I occupied the slow lane, going slow. And watching the side, over by the guard rail. Some of the cans were beat up, but even those mostly had a prime, old fashioned spout. So I'd pull over, walk back and score the whole assembly or just the spout.
Two years ago when momma built us a new house (using my retirement savings), I had a problem. The garage was the same size as before, but there was no pass thru to the top area. So sons rescued ole dad and cut one in. So one day oldest decided to help and had to put my collection up top. We only kept a few down where I could get to them.
I'm guessing my total cost wasn't really free. It probably costs a little fuel to pull over and shut the old jeep off, then a little more to start it back up and pull back out. But I have the fun of cleaning up the interstate, and getting cool new stuff.
I've also got a few 'single use' cans. They're marketed to convenience stores. They hold one gallon and are made from cardboard with a plastic bladder inside. And a nice old fashioned hose with nothing but a cap to cover the business end. Those were returned from someplace that didn't trust them. At one time I had a half dozen of them. I've given them to neighbors, my son that travels, etc. But I just saw one yesterday, so I've got one left.
The gas can's I use have to be 30 years old or more. I once had a collection of 5 gallon cans. I've been slowly replenishing them. Now I understand why I can't find them. They're out of production. I had a half dozen or more of them back in 2005. But then I bought a new Jeep and they gave me a credit card worth Gawd knows how many gallons. I put all I had at the time in my jeep and went to a filling station, one with the lowest price fuel in town. Then I filled every one of them up and drove over to my son's house. He'd just bought a "new-to-him" motorhome. I did have enough fuel to get it to his house from the place he bought it. So we just poured 35 or 40 gallons of liquid gold in his tank. But then he kept my cans as if they were his! Haven't seen them since.
Lets see, I'm surely not gonna make it another 30 years. So all I really need are 2 replacements, one for straight fuel and another for 2 stroke. Long before I croak I figure I won't be playing with 2 stroke toys anyway. Must be a dozen or more 1 and 2 gallon cans up in the top of the garage. And at least a handful of 5 gallon ones. Total cost a few pennies to pull over and pick them up.
