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In May I bought a gas can to carry gas to my scooter and noticed that the spout was a bit more complex than that to which I was accustomed and with far more instructions printed right there on the side. I found that there was no way that the spout could be installed, arranged, screwed on, or whatever that provided any path for gasoline to proceed from the can through the spout. It simply was incapable of passing gas. I tried to make it work. I wasted a lot of time before I dug out the funnel and took the damned spout off. I asked myself and several other people over the next few days why a gas can would be constructed with all that superstructure when a simple screw cap would accomplish everything that the technological marvel could accomplish with a lot less waste of time, and nothing more. The old spouts that leaked a couple of drops were useful.