And farmers block the streets with tractorcades. Long dresses and pantsuits replace miniskirts and hot pants. Polyester spreads like kudzu. Hair gets bushier. Sideburns get longer.
Kids stop getting smallpox shots.
And adults line up for swine flu vaccinations to prevent an epidemic that never happens. But on our eight-tracks, Merle Haggard promises that things will be OK, if we can make it through December. We ring our church bells in support of hostages in Iran. And raise money for starving children from Biafra to Cambodia, knowing we'll soon be doing it again for children somewhere else. And with double-digit inflation and layoffs everywhere, we hope it's not here.