Yuma, Arizona

Remember Happy Days?

And, of course, The Fonz…

I remember Fonzie saying during one of the Happy Days episodes that he didn’t go out on dates on Friday or Saturday nights.

“Those are amateur nights!”

Rich and I used that phrase a lot while we were building houses. We did whatever we could do to NOT go to Home Depot or Lowe’s on the weekends because those were “Amateur Days”.

The aisles were full of wanna be weekend carpenters who didn’t have a clue what to buy, let alone how to use it. But, of course, they couldn’t admit it and had to act all macho in front of their significant others.

Because time was money, we did nearly ALL of our shopping during the normal Monday thru Friday workweek. Trips to those two stores took no more than a third of the time they would take on a weekend day…

We forgot to avoid two places yesterday and acted like amateurs:

• Shopping at Wal-Mart late on Friday afternoon.
• Dinner out asset Applebee’s on Friday night.

Gotta remember to stay away from behaving like amateurs on the wrong days and times…