It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, Part LXXXIX
By Mitch Berg
It was Monday, August 15, 1988.
I called the guy with the apartment – the affordable, gorgeous apartment with the $275/month rent in the not-tops-but-who-cares-I’m-6’5-and-have-a-gun neighborhood…
…and told him I was gonna find a place with my roommates.
I think it was the commitment of jumping my rent $100 a month higher, looking back.
But I do remember that I knew almost instantly it was a very bad idea.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Minimum wage then was about what? $3.85? You could have gotten that retail job for $3.85, worked 15 hours a week, take home pay would have covered that and a little extra for beer.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
What were you thinking?!
August 16th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Colleen, we’ve got to be careful that we don’t turn this thread into a venting of everyone’s stupid decisions. Alone, I could fill the thread so full that PB and Clown would no longer look long-winded in comparison. Mitch should impose a limit of one sad anecdote per contributor if the thread starts to run away.