$40 A$$

I use Yahoo as my web portal, partly out of habit, but mainly because I like their financial section.  I follow the market and my investments there.  The news section on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired.  Oh it touches all the key stories of the day, but then I have to wade through the celebrity gossip, the reality show buzz, and other such nonsense.  What really tears me up is that sometimes I find myself reading that garbage.

The other day for some reason still unclear to me,  an article on 10 styles of jeans trending currently caught my attention.  What really made my eyes pop were the prices.  The cheapest pair was maybe $60, most were over $100, and a couple pair were north of two bills.  Somewhere in the back of my mind, I still think a good pair of Levi’s should cost $20.  Of course, they don’t, but if I have to pay much over $30 or $35 for a pair of jeans I am not a happy camper.

The overpriced jeans reminded me of an incidence with my now grown daughter when she was in 5^th or 6^th grade.  This would have been around 1979 or 1980. That year we made the leap and bumped her up to Levi’s from Wranglers.  She was after all a little older now, and young women are very into fashion.  Given our budget at the time we thought this a generous move on our part.

Well my daughter was not happy.  What she really wanted was a pair of Gloria Vanderbilt’s which were the hot jeans at the time.  They cost around $40, at least twice of what we paid for the Levi’s.  She was going on and on, nagging her mother about the Gloria Vanderbilt’s.  Finally her mother looked at her and said, “You do not have a $40 ass!”  Shocked me, shocked her, and put an end to the discussion.

Reading that article on the trendy jeans with their prices, I suddenly realized that at this late date she would still be lucky if she had a $40 ass.  All she had to do was wait a little.