Things Our Parents Said in 1959........
* "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its' going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20."
* "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5000 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?"
* The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
* "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."
* "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 50 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."
* "Also, their music drives me wild. This 'Rock Around The Clock' thing is nothing but racket."
* "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every movie has a 'hell' or a 'damn' in it."
* "Anymore no one can afford to be sick, $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."
* "I don't know about you but if they raise the price of coffee to 15 cents, I'll just have to drink mine at home."
* "Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a good 10 cent cigar."
* "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the 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."
* "Do you suppose television will ever reach our part of the country?"
* "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 anymore, Those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."
* " I'll tell you one thing. If my kid ever talks back to me, they won't be able to sit down for a week."
* "Did you know the new church in town is allowing women to wear slacks to their service?"
* "Next thing you know is, the government will start paying us not to grow crops."
* "I'm just 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."
posted by Ann at
6:15 PM
2 Comments:
I can remember my parents saying these things. It is amazing how far we have come since their time. Mine never saw a computer or knew what a computer was in their lifetime.
I'll have to print out this post and mail it to my mother-in-law (she doesn't use a computer). She'll get a real kick out of it.
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