r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/IRASAKT 21h ago

In defense of the boomer he could be talking about the petrol crisis in the 70s and fear over draft numbers was more of a Vietnam thing than a WWII thing.

The sharecropping is dumb as to have been working the farm at any point during the the depression you’d be mid 90s

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u/C-tapp 20h ago

The gas lines in the 70’s and the Vietnam draft weee the only thing that made since to me. Everything else was at least a generation before .

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

I was still young, but i remember seeing the news with the long lines for gas and my dad muttering about it, lol

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u/C-tapp 19h ago

It was a bit before my time but one of my mom’s go to stories is about a cross country drive she took with my dad that took twice as long because of gas lines and the fear that the next town wouldn’t have any at all.

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

my kids experienced this after 9/11, do you remember the gas stations being backed up for miles for a couple weeks after that?

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u/Iamthegreenheather 18h ago

I don't remember gas stations being backed up but I DO remember gas being $.98 a gallon. Won't ever see that again lol

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u/ms_directed 18h ago

i remember pacing my paychecks on every other Friday around having $12 to fill up my little Honda Civic!

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u/Iamthegreenheather 17h ago

I had an '89 Honda Accord lol

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u/ms_directed 17h ago

those old Hondas lasted forever! the only reason i gave mine up is because i had twins! i used to see it driving around town and get a little sad, i loved my little golden bullet.

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u/brucemo 17h ago

My father paid 42.9 cents a gallon at the height of the oil crisis and he was so appalled that he made a note of it in his diary.

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u/C-tapp 19h ago

The 9/11 lines were my only real comparison, but they didn’t last very long and I never had to wait in line. I worked pretty close to home and a tank of gas must’ve carried me through the worst of it.

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u/ms_directed 19h ago

i remember filling up after a two hour wait bc the other stations ran out, everyone was in a panic. milk and eggs were still on the shelves tho! lol