To Lim Tin

Safeway-the grocery store closest to my house-is offering 10 cents off gas prices for every $100 you spend in the store, as I'm sure they do across the country. Little known fact, however, is that I believe you can compound the savings, meaning if you spend $200 you receive 20 cents off every gallon of gas you pump, so long as you use it in the calendar quarter. Safeway also is the seller of gift cards to virtually every store in the Tucson area. Said giftcards count towards your $100 of purchases...

So what if, needing to buy a computer, clothes, food, and whatever other merchandise you need to purchase, you instead buy giftcards from safeway to the individual vendors, thus quickly accumulating thousands of dollars on your safeway card, causing you to be eligible for, say, $3.00 off your next purchase of gas per gallon. This brings your total cost per gallon to roughly $0.48 (price as of 4:15pm sunday as I'm looking out the window of starbucks at the safeway across the street). The pump shuts off after $100 on your credit card, meaning you could pump a total of 208 gallons of gas before the auto shut off. So take your closest fourteen friends (provided they have gas tanks roughly 15 gallons in size), and line them up behind your car charging them half of what you save with your discount. Benefits: you earn $289 of free money ($1156 annually I might add) and your friends get crazy cheap gas. Cons: You're banned from shopping at safeway for life.

Anyone in?

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In other news, I was meditating on Eph 5:25-27 and stumped when pondering to what benefit did Christ received for himself by his unconditional love towards us. Thoughts?