Good morning Pops and all you humpsters out there celebrating a day just made for you. I do wonder just who thought this Hump Day up in the first place. And speaking of naming things, and I was, I used to know the name of the guy responsible for Happy Hour. Which should go hand in hand with Hump Day, alliteration aside and only cruel people would put alliteration aside.
And for retired people, shouldn't Thursday be our Hump Day? We don't do anything for 7 days and Thursday's the midpoint in the week. I mean working people even get Labor Day as their very own holiday and I have to do less than nothing to celebrate with them.
The person that, supposedly, gets credit for Happy Hour was a food and beverage manager in a Milwaukee at the Marriott Hotel. Sales were poor and it was winter and people were just biding their time and waiting it out as people of the frozen tundra are prone to do. He had this idea to have finger food and half price drinks when people usually got off work and they advertised it and it was an overwhelming hit and it spread to all of the other hotels. I've stayed at that Marriott where I got the story and I can tell you, that is one hell of a Happy Hour, they can no longer use that name because patrons were getting too happy and harming their unhappy counterparts with vehicles. It was back in the early 80's when I was there but they had a band and a spread like I'd never seen and a line out the door.....unless you were a guest and you received preferential treatment. Hell, I would have gotten a room just for that, just so happens I needed a room because I was in Milwaukee and I lived in Dallas.
Hey now, enough of that, where is Kristie? I thought we had a new member of Pops' thread to join us. I know some like Strollinruss just wander by occasionally but come on, he's strollin, what do you expect? Anyone ever tell you they were out for a stroll? What did you picture? Speed walking? In a hurry to get to an unknown destination? Strollin' is actively wasting time.
I hope I didn't scare her off with that insane/sane stuff but can I help it if we are the most sane bunch of the bunch?