older folks buying groceries

As a joke, I've seen.

I exercise every day, I take two 5 lb. potato sacks & raise them up & down 20 times a day for a week.
Then I put in one potato in each sack & up & down 20 times a day.
Then I put two potatoes in the sacks & do this for a week.
Do this by adding a potato in each sack every week till you have the full 5 lbs of potatoes. :giggle:
 
JaniceM said:
(I read this on a different forum long ago, not sure if a person was speaking for himself or quoting a joke but it's accurate)

When I was young, it was impossible for me to carry $50 worth of groceries..
but now that I'm older, it's very easy... I must have become a lot stronger with age... :oops::cool::ROFLMAO:
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In 1971, the UK went metric with it's currency. We went from 240 pennies to the pound to just 100. Our former currency was known as: Pounds, shillings & pence. At the time a gallon of fuel at the pump was five shillings. That translated into twenty-five new pence per gallon.

Some time later our weights & measures went metric and we bought fuel in litres. One UK gallon, (it's bigger than a US gallon,) is equal to 4.54609 litres, but for quick calculations four and a half litres.

The pump price today is: One pound, fifty pence per litre. If we still sold in gallons it would cost six pounds seventy five pence. I tell you, if the garage signs read: £6:75 per gallon there would be riots, but that's what we are paying. The reason it's so high is because half the pump price is tax.

No wonder electric cars are proving so popular, despite their higher price!
 
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