LITTLE GEMS
Shortchanged in Lake Geneva.
Watch out! Last weekend, when pulling into a fast-food lane and ordering, cash was exchanged. A twenty was paid on a four-dollar order. The worker at the window accepted the twenty and then started talking argumentatively on her cell phone. When she got off the phone, she handed some coins and a five back to the customer, saying: “I thought you gave me a twenty, not. a five, but I was wrong.” The customer replied: “No, I did give you a twenty, as that and two singles were all I had.” The worker immediately corrected herself and took the five-dollar bill back. She puttered around for a few seconds, delivering the bag of food and saying the straw for the drink was inside. She then handed a single and two fives to the customer.
The customer then drove off, thinking about the exchange and strangeness of it. He stopped later and counted his change. He was five dollars short. He’d deliberately been shortchanged he realized by a pro. He didn’t go back because it wasn’t worth the five dollars to raise a stink with management. When this goes on unchecked in the community, however, the businesses suffer because the customer will not return to the business out of embarrassment and expense. Be careful out there, as tourist summers can also be predatory summers for some.
Joanie the Diner and her choice of seating at the city council meetings.
There’s a seating chart for city council members. That chart places the Mayor Mayor up in the center of the raised dais, with four council members to her right and four lined up on her left. This arrangement also allows not only for the attending public to know who each leader is but where they are in front of them. This arrangement also allows for the television camera to capture all nine-city figure of importance and transmit the meetings and attendance and communications to local television viewers tuned in to the city channel.
Little Miss Joanie the Diner doesn’t follow the chart. She sits as far from the rest of the council as she can, way off to the side, so she’s out of view from the camera and her position and role mysterious to those attending in person. The Mayor Mayor of Lake Geneva does nothing to correct or rectify this situation because, for all intents and purposes Mayor Mayor appears not to be in attendance herself, but off in some world of her own. That Joanie the Diner can pull stunts like this, in order to express her own importance over the other alderpersons (one commenter on the GSR Internet site, an employee of the city, termed her Mayor Mayor’s lapdog), and is so allowed, is merely another measure of just how tepid the ‘water’ of today’s city management is.
The 174th Walworth County Fair begins.
Wednesday, August 30th, through Monday, September 4th, the fairgrounds will be filled with all kinds of fair fun. This is Wisconsin’s largest, and most would say, the best county fair of all. There will be all the traditional fair food, games, rides, vendors of all kinds, demonstrations, animals, and a diverse line-up of live entertainment. Fair admission can be purchased at the gate or ahead of time online. Adult admission is $10, seniors’ passes are $8, and kids 5 to 10 years old are $5. For those who want to attend multiple days, season passes are the way to go. Adults are $45 and juniors are $15. Some of the big events and big names at the grandstand events have additional fees. There is so much to do and see at the Walworth County Fair with great fun for the whole family.
