On 20 Mar 2007 09:30:17 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

Wally and Wilma Sacklunch work pretty hard. She's on her feet all day
as a cashier at a local drugstore, and he drives a local bakery truck.
It's all they can do to bring home enough to make the mortgage
payments, keep up the notes on their F250 and Plymouth Voyager, feed
three kids, and stay close to current with the utility companies.

When I was a kid, folks like that owned 14 ft runabouts with a 35 hp
outboard, if they owned a boat at all. They'd run all afternoon on 6
to 12 gallons of gas, costing about $4.

Engineers and managers owned 20 footers; doctors, lawyers and business
owners, 30 to 35 feet. If you were chairman of the board of a sizable
corporation, maybe a 45 or 60 footer.

The problem is that expectations have changed.