While redeeming my Cub Foods fuel rewards at the Holiday Stationstore the other day, the store clerk commented on how she loved it when people used the coupons to save a few dollars on the cost of gas. And she had been seeing more and more people using them.
I found myself telling her I had joined the ranks of the unemployed. "Oh, hon," came her response, with the sincerity of someone who knows financial hardship and wants to do something to help. "Holiday's always hiring. Just go to their Web site on the computer. Do you have a computer?"
She asked me where I had worked and for how long. "The newspaper," I replied. "Nineteen years." She looked at me, a bit incredulous the paper would lay someone off after so many years. "It's that bad down there?" she asked. "Well, take some time off. You deserve a break."
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