How Things Have Changed In 53 Years

This is another one of those things that ended up in my email and it got my attention because it’s the kind of things you might have heard in 1956 which is the year I was born. That’s only 53 years ago but my of my have times have changed:

• I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are it will be impossible to by a week’s groceries for $20.00
• Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $2000 will only get you a used one.
• If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.
• Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?
• If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
• When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would cost 29 cents a gallon? Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.
• Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.
• I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century.
• Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday baseball players will be making more than the President of the US.
• I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.
• It’s too bad things are so tough…I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.
• It won’t be long before some young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
• The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather but I doubt they will ever catch on.
• There is no sense going for a weekend, it costs $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.