Yes, lindz, when this strip was current, $40 was a lot for a suit. Now, the only $40 suit you could find would be four tens: three for the front and one for the back.
You don’t go to Starbuck’s for the coffee, you go for the status and to prove you can afford to spend $8 for a big cup of overly strong (supposedly) gourmet coffee which needs a bunch of crap in it to make it potable. But their cookies are good.
Many years ago, I called a friend’s house, and asked one of his brothers to get him to the phone. When he said “Hello?”, I said, “We’re sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service. If you think you received this message in error, please hang up and try your call again.” He almost didn’t know what to say. We used to get prank calls in the olden times before caller ID. One day after 3 in a row, my father answered the next one, “Mt. Pleasant Police Department!” Never got another one.
Hey, it’s Monday!