Me and my posse. We may be in the grips of the worst recession since the Great Depression, but you sure couldn't prove it by the hardware store yesterday. Twice yearly, Ace runs a "Bag Sale", where supposedly anything you can fit into a paper shopping bag is 20% off the regular price. In reality, the 20% applies to anything in stock, whether or not it actually fits into the bag. There are a few things that are limited to 10% off because of the low margin on them. The expectations were low for yesterday's Bag Sale, with the recession going on and all. According to news reports the US work force is divided into two categories, those who have lost their jobs and those scheduled to lose them this week. So we didn't expect to break any records. When I showed up for work at 6:30 a.m., yes you read that right, 6:30, there were five customers waiting for the store to open at seven. It was kind of bizarre because our prices are a tad higher than the big stores anyway, so you can go to Home Depot and Lowes and get our stuff on sale everyday. But there they stood in the cool early morning darkness, waiting. The first two women in the door at opening, provided the answer. We were giving reusable grocery sacks to the first fifty customers in the door and they were lined up to be sure that they got one. These are the same kind of bags you can get for a buck in any grocery store. Go figure. Anyway, we had over seven hundred paying customers yesterday, about forty percent more than an average Saturday. They spent about three times the amount of a normal Saturday, so it was a rousing success and quite a surprise to the management. In a surprise to the little people, they are giving us an 8% bonus for February. Not bad. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky