The auto insurance industry never sleeps!

[Squeech]

Yeah, I'm at work today... grumble mumble gripe...

[Shoeempress]

1. Yea my Hubby has to work too. I plan to do some Freeway blogging

[Mrs_Beastman]

2. don't forget banks!

:donut:

[Squeech]

3. Around here the banks are all closed

And I work in a major metropolitan area in a blue state on the east coast, with approximately a dozen banks closer to me than even the nearest McDonald's.

My dad, who's almost as cynical as I am, says that Columbus Day is only celebrated in states with strong and politically powerful Italian-American constituencies-- as opposed to Lake Wobegon-type areas whose Scandinavian-derived populations believe that Lief Erikson was here first :-)