How Old Do You Feel?

When I started to work at a real job, for the Federal Government, back in 1973 I was making a whopping $5750.00 per year and I thought that it was great. I had 13 days of sick leave and 13 days of annual leave and I had 10 paid federal holidays, for a 21 year old in the begining of 1973 I was making darn good money. The year I started working for the Federal Government I bought a baby blue 1973 Camaro, and paid $5000.00 for it, my mother thought I was a nut for laying out over $100.00 a month on a car payment. I could fill that baby up with less then eight dollars and it would last me for two weeks. So when my friend sent me the comments for 1955 I just had to pass it along for a laugh. This takes me back to when I was a child and my parents were just begining to have a family. I can acutally remember some of these comments being made in the mid 1950's.

How old do you feel?

I'M SURE ALL OF YOU OLD FOLK WILL REMEMBERS THESE It appears that most of these comments were made in the year 1955

I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.

Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2, 000.00 will only buy 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 started driving, who would have thought gas would someday 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'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable gets by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND,
it seems every new movie has either HELL of DAMN in it.

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. They even have some fellows they
call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.

Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball. It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be
making more than the President

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 nowadays.? I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet. It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.

Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.

I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.

Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people
to congress.

The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'

There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.

No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.

If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.