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Lets try a more practical approach to the Study of Highly
Illuminating Theories (SHIT) for economic activity. Simply compare
your spouse's credit card bills YOY for the same period. :)
Boater805 (I will only agree to be serious if the economy will agree
to the same terms)
At 09:36 AM 12/17/2007, you wrote:
>I had an opportunity to view first hand what the consumer is doing
>Friday night. My wife and I decided to have dinner at the Olive
>Garden and we arrived there about 7:30 P.M. (Remember, we are
>talking about Florida and not New York. Here, the dinner hour is
>typically 6:00 or so). The parking lot was full. The neighboring
>businesses' parking lots were full. (They were closed). The parkway
>grass was full of autos. There were 50 or so people waiting outside
>and nearly that many inside. Now, this is not an upscale restaurant
>in my view but rather a medium scale, family restaurant. The tourist
>season has not begun here as yet so these were residents. Many of
>the customers were young and many others were obviously blue collar
>workers. I don't know how the holiday spending will come out but I
>can see clearly that Americans are not giving up their wife's
>favorite recipe and that is *menu*. :)
>
>Bob
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