And It Continues

One of hubby's coworker's family owns a bar/restaurant.  At 5:10 p.m. on St. Patrick's day they were ordered to close.  It might have been nice if they'd been given a bit more advance warning.  They were stuck with $5,000 worth of food.  Some of it may have already been cooked in preparation of the evening dinner rush, which didn't happen.  Unlike regular restaurants that can easily do carry out, bars can't really send their customers on their way with dinner and tap beer in a cup with a cover and a straw - open container laws and such.  Multiplying their losses by all of the other bars and restaurants in Wisconsin paints a very grim picture for the economy.  As said before, this had better be worth it.  Why couldn't they have waited 4 hours until dinner was done and just had places close a little early?  There were already restrictions on how many people could be in the restaurants.  It seems excessive.

On his drive home from work yesterday hubby noticed all the closed restaurants and the dark and vacant parking lot of the not so gentlemanly club.  He said it was the first time in his life that he felt sorry for the strippers.  I wonder what the line is like at the unemployment office, and the questions - "Occupation?"  Nix that, the unemployment office probably does everything online or over the phone now.

When hubby stopped at a gas station the other day, a man was busy filling his truck and his fishing boat.  Gas prices seem to be dropping from lack of demand, which makes it the perfect time to fill up that gas guzzling boat.  When hubby walked Ember this morning, he spotted a bucket sitting in someone's front yard.  Curious, he took a look.  It was full of minnows.  It looks like I'm not the only one planning to do some fishing.  Too bad it is raining like mad right now.  Men are going to be stuck inside today with their wives and very bored children, who have no new library books to read or videos to watch.  How many games of Monopoly can you play before getting bored or throttling that one family member who cheats and wins all the time?  Pray for domestic peace.  It's true the police are probably getting bored from lack of speeders and bar closing time DUIs to catch, but that doesn't mean that they really want to answer calls for domestic disturbances.