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Offline LC EFA

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I just lost a good customer
« on: March 23, 2009, 07:14:33 PM »
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Botany  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 07:49 PM
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It is getting bad .... I just lost a good customer
   
Edited on Mon Mar-23-09 07:52 PM by Botany
I landscape and this customer has been great ... nice home in an upscale neighborhood .... had
her own business .... investments .... she had to close her doors last Saturday and now will have to
sell her house.


She broke down crying in my arms today and doesn't know how to tell her kids .... 17 year old son ...
22 year old daughter in college. She has always been good to me and a class act too.


BTW she is a republican too (I think) but the hurt was so real and so deep I can't help but wish her

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Here's a hint to lurking DUmmies : When you are creating these stories - skip out the part in bold above - It would make the tale a lot more believable.

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phantom power  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Mon Mar-23-09 07:51 PM
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1. We're losing our nanny. Same reason. Her husband got laid off.
   
I suppose most people will be affected one way or another.

So your nanny, is giving up a presumably paying job because her husband no longer has a paying job ? Really ?

Which makes me wonder how you can afford a nanny in this horrible Bush Obama economy.

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rrneck  Donating Member  (693 posts)  Mon Mar-23-09 07:54 PM
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2. It's everywhere. A lot of
   
my customers are pretty upscale, and they're worried. And my customers who aren't upscale, are really worried. One told me yesterday she started on food stamps.

And we've got a year of this shit to go.

There sure are a lot of "upscale" customers that divulge plenty of personal information to the hired help in Magic Pony Land these days.

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ayeshahaqqiqa  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Mon Mar-23-09 07:54 PM
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3. Wishing her well is the right thing to do
   
We Democrats like to think we are compassionate. You have shown that we are. Thank you.

Interesting turn of phrase there with the "like to think".

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Sebass1271  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 07:58 PM
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6. Too bad for her... I hope she wakes up and realize that
   
republicans want to bankrupt everyone....

If we "bankrupt everyone", it means lots more "poor people" that the rich can steal from  :whatever:
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2009, 07:17:34 PM »
My customers are buying stuff like crazy...of course I sell to state an town agencies so...
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2009, 07:23:29 PM »
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rrneck  Donating Member  (693 posts)  Mon Mar-23-09 07:54 PM
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2. It's everywhere. A lot of
   
my customers are pretty upscale, and they're worried. And my customers who aren't upscale, are really worried. One told me yesterday she started on food stamps.

And we've got a year of this shit to go.

This is predictable like that how?

These effen idiots really do think life is like a TV show or movie with a script.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2009, 07:26:32 PM »
Wow, when I read that piece all I could think of is "What happened to all the "hopey/changy" stuff when the King was crowned.  He was gonna pay your rent and fill your gas tank up.   :rotf:  Instead, they are laying off their nannies.   :rotf:  No problem April 1 they will be getting that tax break so they can hire the nanny again.   :rotf:
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2009, 07:30:46 PM »
Quote from: Black Swan on March 23, 2009, 07:26:32 PM
Wow, when I read that piece all I could think of is "What happened to all the "hopey/changy" stuff when the King was crowned.  He was gonna pay your rent and fill your gas tank up.   :rotf:  Instead, they are laying off their nannies.   :rotf:  No problem April 1 they will be getting that tax break so they can hire the nanny again.   :rotf:

This is all still for one reason and one reason alone...to try to tie any and all future economic woes to President Bush.
O has taken full ownership of the state of the state and the best imo will be an economy that trudges along on a couple year cycles of impotent growth combined with heavy inflation and recession....think the 70s.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2009, 07:33:34 PM »
Quote from: Black Swan on March 23, 2009, 07:26:32 PM
Wow, when I read that piece all I could think of is "What happened to all the "hopey/changy" stuff when the King was crowned.  He was gonna pay your rent and fill your gas tank up.   :rotf:  Instead, they are laying off their nannies.   :rotf:  No problem April 1 they will be getting that tax break so they can hire the nanny again.   :rotf:

Maintain Hope ; Your Free Ponyâ„¢ is in the mail.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2009, 07:35:37 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on March 23, 2009, 07:33:34 PM
Maintain Hope ; Your Free Ponyâ„¢ is in the mail.


I don't want a free pony--I want pie!  LOL
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2009, 07:40:29 PM »
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phantom power  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Mon Mar-23-09 07:51 PM
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1. We're losing our nanny. Same reason. Her husband got laid off.
   
I suppose most people will be affected one way or another.

WTF. :confused:

Anyone care to translate DUmmyspeak?
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2009, 07:41:41 PM »
Quote from: Carl on March 23, 2009, 07:30:46 PM
This is all still for one reason and one reason alone...to try to tie any and all future economic woes to President Bush.
O has taken full ownership of the state of the state and the best imo will be an economy that trudges along on a couple year cycles of impotent growth combined with heavy inflation and recession....think the 70s.

Carl, they can try to blame Bush for it if they want but it is all on 0's watch.   I disagree with you about inflation.  It will be deflation.  Inflation is quite a ways away IMO.  
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2009, 07:42:23 PM »
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I landscape and this customer has been great

Translation.  I cut her grass with my push mower and she lets me drink from the garden hose on the really hot days.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2009, 07:43:33 PM »
Quote from: Tucker13 on March 23, 2009, 07:40:29 PM
WTF. :confused:

Anyone care to translate DUmmyspeak?

He got picked up in an ICE raid and she has to go back to Mexico?
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2009, 07:43:47 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 23, 2009, 07:42:23 PM
Translation.  I cut her grass with my push mower and she lets me drink from the garden hose on the really hot days.

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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2009, 07:45:41 PM »
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phantom power  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Mon Mar-23-09 07:51 PM
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1. We're losing our nanny. Same reason. Her husband got laid off.
  
I suppose most people will be affected one way or another.

So your nanny, is giving up a presumably paying job because her husband no longer has a paying job ? Really ?


Their nanny is probably in country as illegally as her husband is.  "Laid off" - in this context, anyway - is DUmbass speak for busted by immigration and scheduled for immediate deportation, I think.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2009, 07:46:40 PM »
Quote from: Black Swan on March 23, 2009, 07:41:41 PM
Carl, they can try to blame Bush for it if they want but it is all on 0's watch.   I disagree with you about inflation.  It will be deflation.  Inflation is quite a ways away IMO.  

I disagree with the bolded portion.  We are already seeing a blip of inflation left over from the summer's high fuel prices.  It certainly isn't up to 70s levels, but it's already there to a minor extent.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2009, 07:55:03 PM »
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Sebass1271  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-23-09 07:58 PM
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6. Too bad for her... I hope she wakes up and realize that
   
republicans want to bankrupt everyone....



Man...they just wallow in stupid over there...
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2009, 07:55:53 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 23, 2009, 07:46:40 PM
I disagree with the bolded portion.  We are already seeing a blip of inflation left over from the summer's high fuel prices.  It certainly isn't up to 70s levels, but it's already there to a minor extent.

I politely agree to disagree.

Inflation is a net expansion of money and credit while deflation is a net contraction of money and credit

Credit has tightened up and more people are saving and not spending.  Loss of jobs and reduced wages is yet another sign of deflation.  
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2009, 08:02:02 PM »
Quote from: Black Swan on March 23, 2009, 07:55:53 PM
I politely agree to disagree.

Inflation is a net expansion of money and credit while deflation is a net contraction of money and credit

Credit has tightened up and more people are saving and not spending.  Loss of jobs and reduced wages is yet another sign of deflation.  

I stand corrected.  I spoke incorrectly.  I was thinking merely about the increase of the cost of many items that resulted from the increased fuel costs.

You are of course correct.

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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2009, 08:41:38 PM »
Quote from: SarasotaRepub on March 23, 2009, 07:55:03 PM



Man...they just wallow in stupid over there...

It's all they've got going for them.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2009, 06:37:39 AM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on March 23, 2009, 08:41:38 PM
It's all they've got going for them.

Use what the Lord gave you. It's strange that they all managed to end up in the same place though.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2009, 07:41:53 AM »
I'm confused.  I thought only rich f**ks had nannies!  Don't the DUmmies want to eat the rich?  Anyway, agree with you on the ICE raid. 

Also, what did that mean, we have a year to go of this?  Unless we get some of this crap repealed, we've got 40+ years to go of this. 

« Last Edit: March 24, 2009, 10:48:20 AM by Karin »
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2009, 07:47:36 AM »
Quote from: Karin on March 24, 2009, 07:41:53 AM


I have four bitch-slaps.  Would anybody like to tell me why? 

None from me, but shit happens. Think "You can't please all the people, all the time".

Myself, I don't worry about em.

Edit to add: Got one for complaining. :hammer: :-)
« Last Edit: March 24, 2009, 07:49:21 AM by Tucker13 »
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2009, 08:03:26 AM »
Quote from: Karin on March 24, 2009, 07:41:53 AM
I have four bitch-slaps.  Would anybody like to tell me why? 

I'll offset you with a H5 for using my actual name for your screen-name, all the way down to the most important "i".
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2009, 10:04:40 AM »
Quote from: lastparker on March 24, 2009, 08:03:26 AM
I'll offset you with a H5 for using my actual name for your screen-name, all the way down to the most important "i".

bitchslapped for giving in to a whiner.
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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2009, 10:41:07 AM »
It is always interesting to me how the DUmmies can't see the economy working on the small scale.  They lose their jobs cutting grass (employee) because the homeowner (boss) has to cut back due to cut backs in one form or another.  They scream "Eat the Rich!!!" even after stories like this. 

Hey DUmmies, it works on the grander scale too.  If you continue down the path of penalizing successful corps you WILL be in hard times.

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Re: I just lost a good customer
« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2009, 10:45:30 AM »
As compared to a friend of mine that does bathroom and kitchen remodels. He has no work because his clients are telling him that they expect large tax increases and are not spending that money on remodels.  

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