Almost blew my tires today.

[repete86]

I was checking my air pressure today at a gas station and was shocked to see my PSI drop to 26psi from the 46 that I had inflated them to a few weeks ago, so decided to do something about it. I start adding air, and was surprised that it was taking a while. It wasn't until I got to the last tire that I realized that somethind was rotten in the state of Denmark, so I got my own pressure guage out and did a comparison. According to the guage on the air machine, I was at about 45 psi, but my own guage read over 80! My tires are old, and it's time for new ones, but that impressed me. I was thinking for a moment of driving with the tires like that before decideing that it was a really stupid idea, and deflated them back to 46. Scary **** though that an air pressure guage could be so far off when so many people use them. Do the gas companies install bad equipment, or was this just some freak wrong reading?