Rita: Lavendara Gives ‘Em Gas
CNN correspondent Ed Lavendara blogs from Lountze, Texas:![]()
“We dropped below half a tank of gas a few hours ago as we made our way to cover a story we’re chasing north of Beaumont. We finally found a lone gas station still open, but you could only pay at the pump with credit cards.![]()
Next to me were two families piled into a Cavalier and a Prelude. They didn’t have credit cards and were holding what looked like a few wadded up dollar bills. When they realized their cash was no good there they started getting nervous.![]()
They just wanted to drive north as far as the gas tank would take them. So I told them to swing their cars around to my pump. We filled up their tanks on my credit card — almost 50 dollars worth. I’ll remember their smiling faces for a long time as they resumed their journey north again.”

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