Adaptation

I get a grim amusement from people's change in attitude over time regarding things that used to make them absolutely livid.  Namely, gas prices.  It wasn't that long ago that there was a spike in the average gasoline prices and the per-gallon cost was starting to approach an insane $2.  People lost their collective minds.

I think I filled up at about $3.36 per gallon the other day, and I haven't heard anyone gripe about how high gas prices are in months.  Now, the possibility of prices dropping is a good thing, but I wonder if people will be grateful or go back to bemoaning how much it is compared to a few years ago.

I'm not overly optimistic about the grateful part.  But, hey, there's a bright side: we'll adapt, again.