Your personal meter is running at about $4.17 an hour, 24 hours a day.
But with just a weekend, the meter is always running.
No more than three meters on a side, with a long window running along the wall opposite the door.
But it adds up to over $123 million and the meter is running.
"The meter was running, but no one had ever thought about the packaging problem."
The meter had been running, she noted, but nothing would sour her tonight.
The safety lock still had another hundred meters to run.
This is like asking someone who's good at running the 200 meters to run 800.
So if you choose to raise cash in the coming weeks, remember that the meter is running.
"Americans don't like to have the meter running on anything that has to do with entertainment, information or communication," he said.