"Bob (this one)" > wrote in message
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> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>
> > Bob (this one) wrote:
> >
> >> I've never understood that "Black Friday" thing. When I was actively
> >> selling my food products in farmers' markets, it was always about 10
> >> times better than my next best day. Black Friday should be reserved
> >> for disastrous occasions, not the ones that pay the bills. <G>
> >
> > In this case, a "black" day has both one meaning and its opposite. So
> > Black Monday and Black Tuesday were economic disaster days in 1929 at
> > the beginning of the Depression, but the day after Thanksgiving is a
> > black day because sales are normally so good the retailers are back in
> > the black on their balance sheets.
> >
> >
> > I'm interested in how sales the day after Thanksgiving work in the food
> > business.
>
> Short version: you can go bowling in most restaurants and not hit
> anybody. The only ones that do any appreciable business are the ones
> in the mall food courts and fast food operations near malls and other
> strong shopping areas.
>
> Pastorio

After a kitchen sink drain disaster on Thursday morning, that neither
plunger nor drain auger could fix, made home cooking out of the question (I
didn't really feel like doing dishes in the bathtub), I met with a friend at
an Old Country Buffet. I thought, since it was 2 PM, the business would be
slack. It wasn't; there was a queue clear back to the door because every
table was filled. Fortunately my friend had gotten in earlier and saved a
place in line for me :-)

On Friday I bought a Clog Buster (a torpedo shaped black rubber thing that
goes on the end of a garden hose and is fed down the drain pipe, where it
swells to fill the pipe and then blasts water down the pipe) and that
cleared the clog. Wish I'd had one on Thursday morning....