Talk about a slow news day; must be Good Friday

Talk about a slow news day. I used to tell my staff, “There’s no such thing as a slow news day, only slow reporters.”

Today I was proven wrong. Dead quiet in here with only a few newsies and a couple of others on the job. Not much going on around town. Phone not ringing. Nobody issuing press releases. ZZZZzzzz.

Walmart, on the other hand, was a different story. I had to take a run up there just after lunch to pick something up, and it was quite the experience. The parking lot was packed, the store was packed, the lineups at the cash registers were a mile long.

If we needed to get hold of anybody for a news story, all we’d have had to do was go look for them at Walmart.

Note to self — get your shopping done before the long weekend from now on.