I want it for a quarter.

[Victory Sabre]

You've got to love it when the dementia patients I serve, at my restaurant, complain that they can't get their sandwiches for the same price they got it back in the 50's.

Yeah, asshole, we're not a fucking charity. Beef cost alone went up 60 cents a pound year over year. Our increase in price, over 4 sandwiches went up 64 cents. When you add in every other part that goes into making a sandwich, we're going fucking backwards.

Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. Go to fucking McDonnalds, and get something that isn't beef, and choke on it. Assholes like you are the reason I'll leave this business someday.


New Beer Sunday, after work, can't come fast enough.

[Slave to the Phone]

I'm actually old enough to remember cheeseburgers costing a quarter. Times have changed and so have I, no need to wonder why. There's no time left to argue about it, just buy the dang hamburger and leave the poor powerless clerk alone.

[wolfie]

I remember when a gallon (Imperial - roughly 6/5 of a U.S. gallon) of gas cost about 80% of what a liter of gas costs now. I also remember when McDonalds kept updating their signs (first one I saw, the "x" billions served was a single digit), before they changed to "billions and billions served".

[workerbee222]

I remember my first job: there was a McDonald's on my way home, and I could get a burger, fries and drink for a buck!

[MoonCat]

I remember 5 cent popsicles. Yes, I am that old.

And I don't expect to pay that little for them anymore. The price of everything goes up over time. Why can't people understand this, and accept it?

[Monterey Jack]

"Well, I want to sleep with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, but we can't always have what we want, can we, Sir?"

[Pixelated]

I remember 5 cent popsicles. Yes, I am that old.

And I don't expect to pay that little for them anymore. The price of everything goes up over time. Why can't people understand this, and accept it?

I remember that ... AND penny candy! Walking into the store with a bagful of pop bottles and exchanging them for a bag o' future diabetes! Seriously, good times ... and since we walked to the store and back, we pretty much walked off a lot of that sugar.

Victory Sabre, are these literally people with dementia? Because if they are, they genuinely can't remember what day it is, never mind what year, or why they can't get sandwiches for 50 cents anymore. (My mother has a form of dementia, and as far as I can tell, she no longer knows who I am.)

Or are they just grumpy old farts?

[Monterey Jack]

You know, you can still get a basic hamburger or cheeseburger at Mickey D's for about a buck, so, considering sixty years' worth of inflation, what are these old coots complaining about?

[Racket_Man]

White Castle burger 5 cents
yeah the 5 cent popcicle
gas - 15 cents a US gallon
loaf of bread 25 cents
pack of non-filtered Camel cigarettes 25 cents (my Father used to smoke them way back in the day)
PENNY CANDY OOOOHHHHHH YYYYEEEESSSSSS

[Mr Hero]

"Well, I want to sleep with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, but we can't always have what we want, can we, Sir?"

You'll have to fight her 7 evil exes.

[AccountingDrone]

I remember that ... AND penny candy! Walking into the store with a bagful of pop bottles and exchanging them for a bag o' future diabetes! Seriously, good times ... and since we walked to the store and back, we pretty much walked off a lot of that sugar.

LOL There was a Woolworth Five and Dime in town - and my brother and I each had a 25 cents US per week allowance [this was 1966-about 1970, I think at some point my allowance went up to fifty cents US in that time] and every Saturday we would walk the 4 blocks to the little downtown area to buy candy. My brother would get 1 mallowmar, and an assortment of penny candies [he liked chewing gum mainly] and my special treat candy was a whole chocolate bar with almonds, and my penny candy was the little hard 'boiled sweets' - I preferred butterscotch candies.

[Monterey Jack]

You'll have to fight her 7 evil exes.

It'd be so worth every lump, bump and bruise.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Definitely worth it for both those lumps...

[Monterey Jack]

Definitely worth it for both those lumps...

OH yes...



Mary's been rocking it on Fargo this season.

[MadMike]

I don't think I'm as old as some of the people who commented in this thread, but I do remember my mom getting candy bars for me and my brother, and complaining that they were 15 cents each. I think they're something like $1.25 now out of the vending machine at work, but I rarely use it.