Were paying almost $100 for fast-food tacos LA has gone crazy

Buddy, can you spare a hundy?I don’t know what’s going on in the world, but this inflation is really becoming straight-up bananas! Especially here in Los Angeles, where life has become almost too expensive to believe.Just last week, my hairdresser, Pepper, told me that she went to a local fast-food taco joint with her son, and they had food and two drinks.It cost them $63! And she’s a tiny woman, so she’s not exactly ordering the two chicken chalupa supreme.Another friend of mine, who works as a masseuse, complained that she has to pay $3,000 a month for childcare — for one child.

That is a lot of back rubs.She also told me that filling her car’s gas tank cost $140! Unreal.Another friend, Angela, who also has to drive all over town, couldn’t believe the cost of a dozen eggs was nearing $12 in some places.Mine are $13 at the farmers market.

One avocado — one! — cost me $7! It was a big one, but still.My girlfriend, who lives up in northern California, got evicted for not paying her rent when the living conditions were uninhabitable.Even after making $40,000 a year, she still couldn’t afford her apartment.

So now she is forced to live in a shipping container in the foothills.Literally.

And it’s so hot in there.My fellow wellness nerd friend, Jasmine, can’t get over the prices of supplements.It costs an arm and a leg just to keep your body together.I have a car, but I’m working all the time, and can’t drive my 15 year old around everywhere she needs to go.

Yet I can’t keep up with the cost of the Uber and Waymo rides until she gets her license.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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