Monday - January 26, 2009

 sign of the times

altered economic realities

What happens a month after your overstuffed minivan is emptied of its contents three days before Christmas by some desperate bad guy as you sleep on I-95 in South Carolina?  

You get a linen embossed thank you note from the president of the department store where you shopped to restock your family's stolen wardrobe!

Is this special personal attention because of these difficult economic times?  Businesses are falling faster than the snow around here.  So when someone, in additition to being a cardholder with regular attendance, exceeds a certain dollar amount (certifiably insane) in a single transaction I suppose some personal attention might be warranted.  

Or is it just because this event put me into a hyperspending highrolling category I've never been in before? Do big spenders normally get this kind of attention?  Life is like a casino.. now I get to wait in short and fast Plutonium line - behind the velvet ropes instead of slobbery steel cattle bar.

But wait... do I have to keep spending money on you or will you love me forever?  

Mr. Department Store President?  

My friend?  Hello - oo- oo?