Uncle Gump
Token Old Guy
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TRS 25th Anniversary
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2018
- Messages
- 14,008
- Reaction score
- 13,507
- Points
- 113
- Location
- Ottawa IL
- Vehicle Year
- 2006/1986
- Make / Model
- Ranger/BroncoII
- Engine Size
- 4.0L SOHC/2.9L
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
- My credo
- Lead follow or get out of my way
As usual... I wake up start the coffee and click on the news. I pour a cup... turn my attention to the news to see a mug shot of a middle aged lady arrested for murdering both of her parents. I say to myself... that's Debra. I have waited on her once or twice a week at my pizza shop for the past few years. Always friendly... smiles... polite. I guess this proves that you never know. People just snap...
Not that things are better any place else... but I'm ready to get out of Cook County... and Illinois altogether. My evacuation plan is in two phases. Phase 1... is selling my pizza shop. As luck would have it.... I have an agreed upon offer for the pizza shop and the potential buyer will be there today at 1:00 pm and we will see if we can close the deal. Phase 2... I fix up the house... get it on the market and start looking for property in northern Michigan.
It's all bittersweet really... We've put a lot into the business and have tripled sales and built a great reputation. However the business model can't survive with the minimum wage increases imposed... the taxes... and just the ever increasing price of doing retail business in Cook county. The housing market in our neighborhood appears to be on fire right now... They've built about 20 new homes and more underway in our subdivision.... and the completed ones are all occupied. The time is right to get mine on the market.
Not that things are better any place else... but I'm ready to get out of Cook County... and Illinois altogether. My evacuation plan is in two phases. Phase 1... is selling my pizza shop. As luck would have it.... I have an agreed upon offer for the pizza shop and the potential buyer will be there today at 1:00 pm and we will see if we can close the deal. Phase 2... I fix up the house... get it on the market and start looking for property in northern Michigan.
It's all bittersweet really... We've put a lot into the business and have tripled sales and built a great reputation. However the business model can't survive with the minimum wage increases imposed... the taxes... and just the ever increasing price of doing retail business in Cook county. The housing market in our neighborhood appears to be on fire right now... They've built about 20 new homes and more underway in our subdivision.... and the completed ones are all occupied. The time is right to get mine on the market.