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To: SilentZ who wrote (421719)	10/2/2008 9:26:11 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1595529

No sign of that in my area....Thursday thru Sat. evening and Sun. brunch are still very strong...

To: SilentZ who wrote (421719)	10/2/2008 9:34:15 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 1595529

started well before monday. On sunday my wife, kids, grandkids hit a ruby tuesday at a well travelled mall. No one was there at 6pm on sunday. We expected to wait and the restarant was half full. It started with the $4 gas and its mushrooming.

To: SilentZ who wrote (421719)	10/2/2008 12:41:52 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1595529

I was out last night at one of my usual bars/restaurants, and the bartenders told me that after the crash on Monday, people started cancelling reservations at restaurants all over the neighborhood... this is not good. People are scared. I was in a sports bar with friends when they seized WaMu. While it didn't come as a surprise to me, it shocked my friends, three of whom are native and grew up with WaMu. During this past year, Seattle has experienced good job growth so its been immune to a lot of the recession talk going on in the rest of the country but the WaMu collapse brought it on home. Going back to the dropping car sales and cancelled reservations, that kind of stuff is being reported anecdotally in many places. People are losing confidence very quickly. The House acting like a bunch of truant fratenity boys on Monday didn't help shore up that confidence. The gov't needs to get its act together and start leading in this crisis.