Words of Wisdom from SharLeigh

OH, HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED

Each year scientific inventions better our lifestyle. When we were children, who would imagine that one day most households would have access to the Internet; or people would carry around a Blackberry sending text messages through a cell phone? But with these inventions comes a price - our lives are at a faster pace and the cost of living just keeps rising. Even now it is hard to imagine what the next decade will bring. Let’s pick a Benchmark year of 1955; these quotes are from an e-mail that requests the contents to be shared by all. As you read through the quotes, you begin to realize how far we have come just in the space of our lifetime and how much our lives have changed. But at what price? • I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy two weeks’ groceries for $20 • Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $2,000 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 75 cents, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store • Who would have thought gas would someday cost 17 cents a gallon. I guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage • Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts are ridiculous. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls • 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 • Things are really tough nowadays. I see that 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 • The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on (see photo) • If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it!