“$19.39? Now that was one helluva year!”
Whenever you buy something, and it rings up to 19 dollars and change, it’s hard to resist noticing that it looks like a year. Sometimes, people will comment on what that year was like for them, or wasn’t like.
At Angelica Kitchen the other night, someone’s meal came to $19.50. His commentary was: “1950? That was before my time.” I don’t usually work the register at Angelica, so I don’t hear too much of that. But when I worked at Best Buy, I got a lot of comments like, “$19.76? Whooo, that was an amazing year for me.” If only a cash register could take people back in time!
I’ve found myself doing it too. On the way to Austin from Dallas, I bought a tank of gas and it cost $19.22. “$19.22,” I thought. “Now that looks like a year.”
In a few decades, it will be the 20 dollar items that really get the memories churning. “$20.35? That’s when I spliced an elephant gene to an amoeba gene, creating the first minature elephant. Damn, I sure was scoring a lot of tail back then. And I don’t mean of the Loxodonta Africana variety!”
6 years ago