It’s been one hell of a weekend. The May Day festivities got way out of hand and things didn’t get back to normal until well after the the police left. Ok, sure I made that shit up, but I wasn’t lying that it was one hell of a weekend. I had to work Saturday and Sunday at 6:45 in the morning, and for whatever reason Saturday morning I woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t fall back asleep, and then Sunday morning I woke up at 3:30 and couldn’t fall back asleep. Needless to say that on Sunday night I was tired as hell. I finally laid down on the couch and watched some TV and fell asleep almost instantly. I woke up around 5 this morning and then crawled into bed and slept until 6:30. Finally, back to normal.
You know the saying a fool and his money are soon parted? I guess that’s true. There is an elderly couple in our town and almost two years ago they were the victim of one of these Canadian money wiring schemes. They were told they won some awesome prize but to claim it they needed to send a few thousand dollars. When they came to the store we told them it was a scam and that they shouldn’t do it, so they went to K Mart and did it instead. A few weeks later there was an article in the newspaper about them being scammed out of their money and how embarrased they were about it. Well, the same couple in the last month have wired over $20,000 to Canada again. Each time they have a different story to go with the wiring. The last one was that they were working with the Canadian police to catch the scammers and they could come get their money back because the police would catch the guys before they collected. Well, it just happened that 20 minutes after the money was wired it was picked up, therefore the old people didn’t get their money back. You know, if people like this really want to just throw their money away like that, I would love to open my wallet to them. I can think of plenty of things I could have done with $20,000. Apparently I am in the wrong business here.