OT - Strange experience at Costco

Zmokin

northGAcock said:

Ha.....anybody want to buy a watch?

I have one that has the right time twice a day.

EggNorth

And the sad thing is the reason we continue to get calls, spam, parking lot salesman, door to door is ... It works!

JohnInCarolina

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Man, times have changed!  Now they are only in Pekin or the Rub'n Tugs popping up all around town.

I remember a 1 on 1 conversation I had with highly respected Allen Andrews who was chief of police for Peoria for years. I asked him about the hookers around town who were so obvious and unless "on the job" at the time could always be found in the same areas day after day. His common sense reply was "We know where they are and we can keep an eye on them for their own safety and the "Johns" know we are watching them. If we cracked down they would scatter and the "Johns" would feel safer and prostitution would ramp up! This is a proven fact so we let them be, keep them protected and the "Johns"are more descreet."

BTW one of the banks I worked at was "the" bank back in Peoria's sordid wild open past that was the bank of choice for several of the local madams! In fact if you ever heard the name of the infamous China B she was one of our better customers as she would set up passbook savings accounts for all her "girls" and deposit some of their earnings for them so they would have some serious money when they would move on, leave her brothel or get married!  

I have to say that my view of Peoria has changed considerably.

saluki2007

JohnInCarolina said:

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Man, times have changed!  Now they are only in Pekin or the Rub'n Tugs popping up all around town.

I remember a 1 on 1 conversation I had with highly respected Allen Andrews who was chief of police for Peoria for years. I asked him about the hookers around town who were so obvious and unless "on the job" at the time could always be found in the same areas day after day. His common sense reply was "We know where they are and we can keep an eye on them for their own safety and the "Johns" know we are watching them. If we cracked down they would scatter and the "Johns" would feel safer and prostitution would ramp up! This is a proven fact so we let them be, keep them protected and the "Johns"are more descreet."

BTW one of the banks I worked at was "the" bank back in Peoria's sordid wild open past that was the bank of choice for several of the local madams! In fact if you ever heard the name of the infamous China B she was one of our better customers as she would set up passbook savings accounts for all her "girls" and deposit some of their earnings for them so they would have some serious money when they would move on, leave her brothel or get married!  

I have to say that my view of Peoria has changed considerably.

It's never really been the same since they shut down all the distilleries.  A bunch of micro brewers are coming back though...which is nice.