Chores Are Up Sixty-Four

Tommy: gas is up sixty-four percent in seven years. Dougie: I'm charging my mom sixty-four percent for chores. Scarf: his count, not the government's. Abe: Mayor, what rose least? Mayor Dithers, after a long stare: eggs. Abe: new cars, twenty-three percent; eggs did sixty-four! Tommy learned something today: the slowest climber still rose twenty-three percent (and official figures put gasoline up 34.2% in one year). Dougie: then chores are up twenty-three, minimum.

One market commentator's tally of seven years of price rises puts gasoline and a dozen eggs up 64%, home prices up 60% and new cars, the smallest riser, up 23%; the figures are his own count, and official figures show gasoline up 34.2% in the year to September alone.

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TommyAbeDougieScarfMayor Dithers