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April 20, 2006

Perspective

I'm destined to be a crotchety old woman, probably by the time I'm 28. I say a lot of stuff that sounds like "kids these days" and "what is the world coming to" already. I talk a lot about how much current pop culture and fashion suck, and I contemplate the changes in pricing in my lifetime on EVERYTHING.

So when I read this, in Baby-Sitters Club #3 (published in 1986):

"A small tab and a small popcorn, please," I said.

"That'll be a dollar seventy-five," replied the boy behind the counter.

I gulped. I'd forgotten how expensive things were in New York. At the theater in Stoneybrook, you can get a soda and popcorn for ninety-five cents.

I almost died. What's the world coming to?

Posted to Books & Nostalgia at April 20, 2006 06:31 PM

Comments

Posted by: devin at April 21, 2006 08:41 AM