I earned it
Dryer sheet aficionado
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- Nov 10, 2015
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I go to mcdonalds yesterday, I had coupons, I like Big Macs, I like them when I have a coupon for buy one get 1 free. I had to drag my bride there because you can only use 1 coupon per visit. But that isn't the just of the post, I ask the manager if the minimum wage goes to 15 an hour as is the current law proposed can I fill out an application. He goes to the corner, pulls out a stack a inch or so high and said he has about 100 applications from retirees (the bride says he said old people) that will work if the minimum wage goes up. I guess we would be displacing career fast food workers. The bride scolded me the whole walk home that I wouldn't really take a job for 15 bucks . I told her my first job was for 2.10 an hour that they had a youth minimum wage in my state 39 years ago. She didn't care about the history lesson and that 15 bucks is not what I think it is. I'm sure she is right she always is just ask her, but when I hear prices I'm locked in the 70's. For example , You make 50,000 a year wow that's a great job, rib eye steaks are 17 dollars a pound? Are they nuts!, a Hyundai is not still 5999! College is 40,000 a year what are they smoking .I paid 35 a credit at a top private school(NYU) and I thought that was insane. I don't do the active food shopping, I tag along to carry the bundles, I can't look at the price of anything without thinking its a complete rip off. Houses! A doctor bought the one my neighbor had, a working stiff like me with one income like we did cant buy these things. So am I a relic about money, when I ran my numbers I factored in 60,000 after tax a year, thinking I'm a big spender but 60,000 is chump change it seems.