Joe Willie On The Shrimpbox: "What Everybody Was Talking About In 1955"

"Comments 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.'

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year?
It won't be long before $2000 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, nobody will
be able to hire outside help at the store.'

'When I first 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 get by with saying 'damn'
in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new movie
has either 'hell' or '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.'