Humm, surfeit, a new word to add to my vocabulary. Seems appropriate to me.
We could also go back to the summer of 1968 when there were gas price wars for
10 cents a gallon in Fort Worth and a lot of cars got about 10 miles per
gallon. I think I was making about $3.10 an hour in a professional position.
Rent was generally a little over $100 a month including utilities. A new
Mercury Cougar could be purchased for around $3200. Enchilada dinners at El
Fenix were $1.00.
Ron
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From: "Minton, Mark" <mmin...@nmhu.edu>
To: "texascavers@texascavers.com" <texascavers@texascavers.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:15:06 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] RE: gas prices
Don Cooper said:
>>No - but I would give my left nut to go back to the days that gas was 1.05 a
>>gallon, when I was making only $19.00 an hour with excellent health benefits
>>and rent, including paid utilities were only $500 a month.
To which Louise Power said:
>You can't even give those things away in Oregon. You see them sitting roadside
>along with Hummers with big "For Sale" signs in the windshield. They've been
>sitting there so long that most of the signs are faded and have spidey webs on
>them.
Are you talking about left nuts here? Is there a surfeit of left nuts in
Oregon? Inquiring minds want to know! ;-)
Mark Minton
