The Top 40

Truth is a tedious maid.

Look…..the truth is when my dad was in college, everyone was required to take tough courses. You were considered a puny asshole with no brain if you didn't take trig, calculus, chemisty and that pussy course, Accounting I, financial accounting and tax.

Now college cirriculums are designed to award BS and BA degrees to fuggin' idiots who just can't cut it. Growing up, I didn't have any math skills as tests prove, but later in life I labored under higher math, chemistry, math and computer courses in my 40's and 50s, just so's i'd know a bit about them.

So, with me being learning impaired but progressing, if any of you pussies out there cannot or refuse to rise to the challenge of higher ed…..screw you! You have not risen to the base or bottom of self assessment. Keep your jobs at McD's or Burger King and STFU.

At the age of 15, in the summer of 1970, I got my first *real* job at the only McDonald's in the whole county. Yeah, 60 second service, no exceptions, ever. The pay was $1.45 an hour and I was glad to have it. It was *real* in that it was the first time the gov't stole money from me. With the remains of my 1st paycheck I bought a portable cassette player and the tape Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Most people don't realize how good they have it today. The moaners need to have it all taken away from them then they will be begging to work for $7.25/hr.

Ghost, was that the original McDonalds on old route 66 in San Bernardino?

have the decency to admit that it doesn't hurt you

Wrong, of course. There is the seen (the consequences of a choice) and the unseen (the consequences of all the choices not made).

Idiots’ belief in astrology or socialism doesn’t affect me when they choose to guide their lives by a couple of lines in a newspaper, or may enrich me when I build a computer that they might perform their astrological calculations, but by choosing to devote a life to astrology, all the good they might have done is lost. They are a broken window.

"...but by choosing to devote a life to astrology, all the good they might have done is lost"

I'm reasonably sure anyone who decides to devote their life to astrology probably wouldn't have accomplished much that could be classified as "good". At best they might have held down a job and not been a drag on society.

Hey, why all the hatin on astrology- after all it was the beginning of "the science is settled".

GWTW: No, it was on Highway 41 (Lord, I was born a ramblin' man....) in Fort Myers, FL.

It was the old skool type, no indoor seating, full height glass along one side so customers could watch them cooking the food - a novelty back then, golden arches, blue and white checkered tiles, and you could buy 5 hamburgers and get change back from your dollar.

It was the hotspot in town and everybody congregated there on Fri and Sat nights.

Believe it or not, the Fort Myers Police Dept dispatched a cop to patrol the place on foot on those nights and he was a happy go lucky guy named Barney. No, not Fife. LOL

There were no shootings, stabbings, rapes or any the other other stuff that is allowed and encouraged these days.

If anyone had even attempted any of that stuff they would have been taped up and carted away and never seen of again.

Same with the whiney parents - they would have been shunned, ostracized and eventually ran out of the county.

People had ballz back then and the pussy's stayed in the closet where they belonged if they existed at all.

Here's the 1970 menu, from photographic memory, that allowed 60 second service:

hamburger .19
cheeseburger .24
dbl hamburger .29
dbl cheeseburger .34
Big Mac .49
fish sandwich .35
fries, 1 size .19
coke, sprite, orange, root beer, 2 sizes .19, .29
chocolate, vanilla, strawberry milkshakes, 1 size .35 and the sales tax was 4%

No females worked there and all beginners started by *dressing* the buns - putting mustard and ketchup and pickles on them, and there was no way in hell you would ever be promoted to working the counter until you had proven you could do all of the other things in the manufacturing process.

I worked there 4 nights a week from 4pm til midnight and then all day on saturday and the following summer, 1971, I purchased my first car, a dark green metallic 1966 Mustang convertible with the 289 hi-po engine for $1000.00 cash.

I graduated from Fort Myers high school in that car and after 1.5 years experience at McDonalds a concrete construction gave me a break and suddenly I was making $4.50 an hour - BIG money!

And if I hadn't stuck it out at McDonalds I never would have had that opportunity.

Minimum wage isn't a lifestyle, it's a stepping stone, and I and millions of other people are successful proof of it.

In the summer of 1964 I was working in the flower bulb fields for 90 cents per hour. By the summer of 65 I was making 30 cents an hour as a US Army Private. By 69 I was managing a gas station( One man crew, ME, seven days a week.) 448 hours per month for 500 dollars. I was able to buy a new Dodge Charger. Money was actually worth something in those days. Kids are paid less than experienced adults, get over it. No way is building burgers worth 15 bucks an hour. To say it is, is cultural warfare.

Minimum wage jobs are for making the mistakes that you need to get out of your system before you can start doing serious work. The stupid mistakes that people expect a kid working for minimum wage to make. Why? Because you are a stupid kid working for the minimum wage. After you stop making those FU's and learn some skills, then somebody gives you a bit more money. Not before.

Who would hire a kid with all his stupid mistakes still inside him for serious money?

Who would hire a kid with all his stupid mistakes still inside him for serious money?
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Nobody, and that's exactly what raising the minimum wage will do, make it more difficult for entry level people to find tax stealing work. What's the solution? Find non-tax stealing work. But then, that's the solution for everybody everywhere. Avoid thieves.