Was July 4th as busy as past years? (article)

[TreeFrog]

Economic Stimulus checks in action.

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Sorry, W. I fit the survey profile to a T. Stuck it in savings.

I guess Best Buy will have to sell that HDTV to someone else.

 

[jodiFL]

But I do think that the visitors that were here were spending far less money and were being ALOT more careful about their $$. Seemed to me that there were several families sharing bigger houses and not eating out as much and when they did eat out got totally offended when told that their party of 19 would only be getting one check.:roll: Seems that restaurants elsewhere dont have the rule about parties over 8 getting one check and a gratuity added to their bills. But then again I have never heard of calling an order in to be eaten at the restaurant in order to avoid a wait for a table. (Yep...was asked that gem of a question on several occasions last week.)

 

[TreeFrog]

I always guage how many people are in Seagrove by the number of bikes in front of Butterfly. The less bikes, the more people in town.

Assuming Butterfly owns the same number of bikes as in previous years, there were either...

-Less people opting to rent a bike
-Less people here

'cause the lot didn't clear out like it useta...