It's Memorial Day Weekend - Dinner Plus Drinks Announcement

Hey there, this is Dinner Plus Drinks, and it's just Bridget today. It's Memorial Day weekend, and while many people are out enjoying what we have had to be quite beautiful weather, many, many people are still at work. Grocery stores, pool companies, many of the trades, restaurants. I saw a man paving a parking lot today in the 90-degree weather. And it's been a tough time to be in businesses that are customer-facing. I think people have gotten more rude, etc. And three-day weekends and actual time of rest and like just turning off are not a thing that our country really does or considers valuable. So Nick is slammed at the store and has been for the last few days. This week, it's just gonna be me popping on to say that we're taking a break. We are forcing a rest and reset this week. This week was tough. Um two years after COVID, and we're still here. Uh, we are seeing businesses, really good friends of ours, shutting down. Uh they tried and tried and tried, and like so many other people, just couldn't make it work. And that was really hard for a lot of us to watch. Um, so we come from a small community, so that was tough, and then I cannot even begin to go into the tragedy that was yet another school shooting in this country. So we promised that dinner plus drinks would be a positive place, and we've been really trying to keep it that way while still covering some topics that are happening in the news, and we just didn't feel like we could do that this week. Uh, we've been having a really hard time with it. I've got a kid in the school system. Uh, we many of us, many of our listeners, Nick and I, we both have kids. And regardless, uh, even if you don't have kids and you have a heart and a soul, you probably had a hard time this week. So, on top of a lot of things, we just needed to take a quick break, and we promise we will be back next week with more fun and a regular episode of Dinner Plus Drinks. But in the meantime, we hope you are having a lovely weekend. And if you're working, we hope you get some rest and thank you for working while everyone else uh is having an enjoyable weekend, hopefully. Uh, but take a break where you can, and we will be back next week with a regular Dinner Plus Drinks. Bye bye.