A Man Asked Grandfather For Twenty Dollars.

I asked my grandfather for twenty dollars.

“Twenty dollars?!” he said.

“For what?”

“To buy groceries,” I told him.

“When I was a boy,” my grandfather said.

“My mama would give me one dollar, just *one dollar*, and I’d go to the store and come home with two loaves of bread, two sacks of potatoes, a carton of eggs, three bottles of milk, a can of coffee and a box of tea.”

He shrugged and paused.

“Times have changed and ya can’t do that now,” he told me.

“Too many dammmmmm’ security cameras.”