I started out my climb up the Automotive Corporate Ladder to the height of my Mediocre Career with Ford Motor Company. As a Traveler with Ford we drove company cars for 5,000 miles and then sold them to a dealer after our replacement car had arrived. We usually could add any options we wanted on our cars. We drove nice cars.
One day one of my fellow travelers, Dick Hodges, came into the conference room we were all stuffed into and announced he had just ordered his new company car and he had put on it every option he could and the MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) was $3,300!
We all looked at him in disbelief. We could not believe one of our cars could be priced out that high no matter what was loaded onto it.
As an aside: Some of our dealers called some of us, but not me, Empty Suits...Or did they not?
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Back to Belief in
Inflation...
Our televisions will not stop telling us about how much prices are going up as a result of the Good Ole USofA’s Growing Rate of Inflation. Some of us don’t believe that Inflation is as big a problem as others of us do. The number of us that don’t believe that Inflation is a big problem is a shrinking number of us every day that goes by.
I was talking to one of these disbelievers during a break in a tennis match this week. He said something like this...
I don’t see it. I was in the grocery store yesterday and I did notice that the price of Cheez-It Snacks had gone up $.03 in the last week. I can afford to pay $.03 more for my Cheez-Its. This is not a Big Problem.
I was aghast! I took out my Smartphone and proceeded to find lots of information to put him in his place. Armed with our Smartphones we who don’t know much about much can sound real smart.
Looking up from my Smartphone and said, “OK, Moneybags, did you know that an EZGO Express L6 now costs $15,794?”
He replied, “Huh?”
I piled it on, “And did you know that that is $12,494 more than Dick Hodges’ Fully Loaded LTD back in 1971?”
https://ezgo.txtsv.com/personal/golfcarts/express-l6
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Another name the dealers had for some of us, but not me, Smart Ass from the Factory with all the Answers.
