good ol daze..........

Ah, it was pretty this morning....sunshine & puffy clouds..
...’n more clouds....’n clouds........’n the sun went away, hiding behind a grey sky........the temp, which had looked as tho’ it was headed into the 60’s, stopped, reversed, & settled in the ‘50s.
I remember the ‘50s......a young man I used to know sed to me that he would have liked to been around back then, that it must have been a fun era, all those muscle cars & cheap gas......I told him, “It was fun, but scraping up 50 cents to buy 2 gallons of ‘cheap’ gas was hard t’do.” And those muscle cars got the same kind of mileage that they get today. Big ‘ol motors w/4 barrel carbs & they got 14 mpg.....sumtimes more.....I think the Hummer gets around 12 to 14 mpg but they excuse it by quoting size & power.....I don’t think it weighs more than a 98 Olds & prob’ly ain’t any more powerful......
For that same 50 cents y’could’a bought a hamburger & coke for you & a date.....’course you wouldn’t have been able to leave much of a tip but 10% was considered an adequate tip way back then.......
If I had taken a date to the movies in South Shore back then, it would have cost me about 70 or 80 cents to get in, 10 cents for a large popcorn & 10 cents for a soft drink.....after the movie, we might have gone to the Triangle where a 12 oz bottle of Pepsi cost a dime & french fries were about 20 cents.......maybe cost a buck & a half for a date......more if we’d gone to Portsmouth....
not much money but two bucks was hard to come by..... back in the good ‘ol daze.......Justin Other Smith