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TwixVoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:33 PM Original message |
I went to Ihop at 7PM today |
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wanpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. I see the same thing in restaurants and department stores. it's very creepy and telling. |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. Six months ago... |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. Everyone is at home eating cat food.... |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Cat food is WAAAAY more expensive than human food. |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. With melanin? |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 07:34 AM Response to Reply #25 |
42. You mean melaMine... |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. In all fairness, most people that go to Ihop- |
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Dukkha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. or 2am |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 07:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
44. baloney! |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. OK, now I see what you're saying--sorry. |
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LiberalHeart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. A guy I kinow who works in a porn shop told me business is hurting. |
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pimpbot (770 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Too easy to get free porno on the internets! |
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LiberalHeart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I think people go there for more than you can see on a screen (wink-wink). |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. Grocery shopping at 5:00 |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
8. All restaurants are suffereing now. The ones a step above fast food are being hit the |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. I haven't noticed any decrease in traffic at the local |
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globalvillage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Nice. |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Like Garrison Keillor's "Bob's Bait and Donut Shop" in Lake Wobegon? |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:50 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Like Gary Larson's.... |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. "Uh, oh. Trouble brewing. . ." |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
26. In our town we had a hardware store and bar combo. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 07:50 AM Response to Reply #14 |
43. Yesterday's sushi becomes tomorrow's bait??? (NT) |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 08:04 AM Response to Reply #14 |
46. We have Rudy's Welding and Cold Beer around here. |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 08:34 AM Response to Reply #14 |
51. We have a Chinese food restaurant in a gas station |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 09:14 AM Response to Reply #10 |
53. Tourists don't know which ones are good, so they go to the chains. That's be my guess. nt |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 11:30 AM Response to Reply #53 |
58. Good point |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was in Macy's yesterday... |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
12. IHOP doesnt pick up till the kids get the munchies around midnight |
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rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
13. Try ordering from Domino's and say you are going to pay with a check |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
16. Did you pay with a coupon? |
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lifesbeautifulmagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
18. in my area, the stores are empty, but the restaurants are doing ok |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. There Was Barely a Line at Chiptole |
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itsrobert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
23. I was going to post on Sunday, the Fry's Electronics in San Diego was doing booming business |
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bedazzled (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. one of my retail customer's son works at t.g.i. fridays and was sent home on wednesday nite |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
28. Anecdotal as hell, but . . . . about ten days back, I was in a hurry for lunch . . . |
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kurt_cagle (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 11:27 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Spreading up into Canada too |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. Thank you for posting. |
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nadine_mn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
31. "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
32. I thought our local IHOP had closed. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
33. The lady that does my hair was talking today about the domino effect on small businesses... |
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DeschutesRiver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
34. Every person I talk to lately has a bad story going |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
35. Local chinese place, open for close to 20 years |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
36. White Castle is still doin OK. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
37. You're so bourgeois, eating in a restaurant! Just kidding. |
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obiwan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 02:13 AM Response to Original message |
38. Do you have a death wish? That's the only reason I would eat at IHOP. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
39. Lowe's |
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Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
40. Are you perhaps Herman Munster? |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
41. My husband went into the local large sized hardware store today |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
45. I know what you mean |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
47. Rooty, Tooty, Fresh, and Empty |
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
48. This past Sunday I took my daughter to Toys-R-Us |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
49. it's funny. here in my poor, small, rural VT town |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
50. Where was this? |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
52. Probably more due to the fact that the food at IHOP is the equivalent to human Alpo. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #52 |
54. Not true. They make excellent omelettes. |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #54 |
55. I ate at IHOP a couple times for breakfast meetings.... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
56. Not one bit of real food in the whole restaurant. I haven't eaten there in 10+ years. n/t |
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progressivemom (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-09-08 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
57. I went to the mall the other day at lunchtime... |
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