"Have you seen the prices of the new
cars this year? It won't be long before $3,000 will only buy a
used one."
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"If the price of cigarettes keeps
going up, I'm going to quit smoking. A quarter a pack is
ridiculous."
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"Did you hear the post office is
thinking about charging eight cents just to mail a letter?"
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"The government wants to get its hands
on everything. Soon it will be impossible to run a family business
or farm."
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"If they raise the minimum wage to $1,
nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."
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"When I first started driving, who
would have thought gas would some day cost 35 cents a gallon? We'd
be better off leaving the car in the garage."
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"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 almost as long as the
girls."
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"Their music drives me nuts.
This 'Rock Around The Clock' thing is nothing but
noise."
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"I'm afraid to send my children to the
movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get away with
saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind' it seems every movie
has 'hell' or 'damn' in it."
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"It won't be long until they show
married couples sleeping in the same bed in the movies. What is
the world coming to?"
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"Marilyn Monroe is now showing her bra
and panties, so apparently there are no standards any more."
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"Pretty soon you won't be able to buy
a good 5 cent cigar."
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"I read the other day that some
scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of
the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts
preparing for it down in Texas."
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"Did you hear that some baseball
player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play
ball? It wouldn't surprise me if some day they are paid more than
the president."
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"I never thought I'd see
the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They even make
electric typewriters now."
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"It's too bad things are so tough
nowadays. A few married women actually have to work just to make
ends meet."
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"It won't be long before young couples
will have to hire someone to watch their children so they can both
work."
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"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any
more. Those Hollywood stars seem to get divorced at the drop of a
hat."
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"I'll tell you one thing. If my
child ever talks back to me, he won't be able to sit down for a
week."
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"Did you know the new church in town
allows women to wear slacks to their service?"
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"Next thing you know, the government
will start paying farmers not to grow crops."
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"I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is
going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."
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"Thank goodness I won't live to see
the day when the government takes a quarter of our income in
taxes. I wonder if we are electing the best people to
Congress?"
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"Why in the world would you want to
send your daughter to college? Isn't she going to get
married? It would be different if she could be a doctor, lawyer,
or scientist."
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"I hate to see young people
smoking. I tell my children, "Don't take a cigarette from
ANYONE. You never know what might be in it."
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"Drive-in restaurants are convenient
in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
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"There is no sense going to Seattle or
Portland any more for a weekend. It costs nearly $12 a night to
stay in a hotel."
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"No one can afford to be sick any
more. $25 a day in the hospital is way too much."
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"If a few idiots want to risk their
necks flying across the country that's fine, but nothing will ever
replace trains."
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"If they raise the price of coffee to
15 cents, I'll just have to drink mine at home."
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"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a
hair cut, forget it. I'll have my wife learn to cut hair."
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"We won't be going out much any
more. Our baby sitter informed us she wants 50 cents an
hour. Kids think money grows on trees."
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"Cars which dim their lights by
sensors, automatic transmissions--who knows what else? Pretty soon
they will drive themselves."
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"Did you hear that next year it will
cost a dime instead of a nickel to use a pay phone?"
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"Do you suppose television will ever
reach our part of the country?"
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"IBM has a machine they call a
computer. It fills up a whole warehouse and it uses thousands of
vacuum tubes. It can add numbers faster than an old fashioned
mechanical adding machine, but it costs millions of dollars. Why
would anybody want one?
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