Close to Home by John McPherson for April 26, 2024

maybe buy some gasoline as well?

Wouldn’t the food expire when you bring it up to the present?

Al Templeton tried that.

Poor Bleeb seems to be on the inside looking out.

This is the plot device for Stephen King’s novel “11/22/63”

Go when gold is down, buy a coin. Go when gold is up, sell the coin. Repeat.

So… couldn’t make it look like the TARDIS, huh?

(Looks like Bleeb locked ‘em outa the house! Ohh yeah… time to hit the liquor cabinet!)

Get me some canola oil. That stuff went up more than 100% since 2021.

Also reminds me of the woman highlighted on Tik Tok where she said “Europe is 5 hours ahead of us in America, so why don’t they just tell us what has just happened so we can do something about it before it happens here”. There’s just no helping some people.

My mother used to tell me that back in the early 60s, $20 could buy a whole month of groceries.

How handy.

The cost has gone up on everything, not just groceries.

Thank a Biden voter

How much Hamburger Helper can that thing hold?

Better than sale bills.

Can I come over for dodo bird burgers?

Ha! I bumped into couple of Time Travelers at the checkout and they said prices will get much worse.

thanks Biden

That would come in handy, not only would the food be cheaper (as implied) but you can also get the stuff you can’t get no more.

Time time time, look what’s become of me…

Are the 1960s grocery prices offset by the current wealth index and fuel costs to operate that thing?

Oh, wait — cartoon food for thought…

You’d be surprised at how many groceries you could get into that time machine. However, paying for the groceries might be a problem. Our currency has been changed dramatically in the past few decades

Yeah, don’t go back for what your salary was then…

All you have to do is go back to 2020!

Can it go back and get Coca Cola before they moved to corn sweetener?

And gas too?

" The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." Which includes currency. It isn’t only the date that differs.

Oh, I wonder if someone has written a sci-fi short in which time travel is invented, and then ends up with about as much effect and the same sort of use/abuse as the Internet.

Want one! :D

People always talk as if the past is better than the present. It usually was simpler, fewer distractions, but not better. I tend to look to the future instead of the past.