Well Said Rick, as I said in Nashville, I can'...

2010-03-12T05:13:06.797-05:00

Well Said Rick, as I said in Nashville, I can't worry about what we can't control!!

My wife and I live 10 min. north of the US border ...

2009-02-07T19:52:00.000-05:00

My wife and I live 10 min. north of the US border in BC. We frequently go to "the States", especially since the closest town to us is in the U.S.

We went down to Coeur d'alene, Id and Spokane Wash. 2 weeks ago. The first trip we've made since September. With all the gloom and doom we hear on CNN, Fox, etc... we thought that we'd see a real slow down as the recession starts digging in. Not so.

When we visit Coeur d'alene, we like to eat at the Olive Garden. Normally, one has to wait 30-40 minutes to get a seat and that is during the slow time of day. We thought that we'd go during the slow part of the day this time, figuring that we should be able to get a seat right away. Not so. Waiting time. Minimum 40 minutes. That was at 2:30pm. We both looked at each other and blurted out, "where's the recession?" Store after store we visited were as full as they normally are, restaurants were full, Home Depot and Lowe's seem to have had the same volume of people that we're accustomed to see.

We even commented about the recession to a waitress at Olive Garden and she commented that maybe the NorthWest area of the US hadn't heard about it yet.

Sure, like you were saying Rick, sectors are hit and hit pretty hard. But the chicken little story really does hold true. The end result will be how you react.

A year after I bought my business in 1999, the dot com crash came and things did slow down a little bit, but not much. I didn't watch much news nor was interested in it so I didn't know that I was supposed to listen to all the chicken little's. Maybe a good thing?

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Well Said Rick, as I said in Nashville, I can'...

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