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Several weeks ago, Price says, he was waiting in the checkout line to purchase spanikopita, a spinach pie. The cashier told him the pie cost $2.62, but Price had only $2.15 in his wallet, he says...
...medals are very popular," explains the red-haired cashier, who asked not to be identified. "People buy them and have them blessed by a priest. There's real special meaning to them. The most popular is the miraculous medal and St. Christopher (the patron saint of travelers...
...have every saint that's made," the cashier says proudly. "We've got police officer's medals with St. Michael and medals for firemen with St. Florian. We've even got medals for the mentally ill, with St. Dymphna on them...
HAROLD ICKES DOESN'T LEAVE THINGS to chance. While he was running the Democratic Convention in New York City in 1992, he insisted the cashier's check for the confetti vendor be held in escrow in case the climactic balloon drop following Bill Clinton's acceptance speech flopped. Ickes' tactic forced the balloon man to climb into the rafters to cut the netting with a large knife. The sight of an armed man climbing through the lights at Madison Square Garden drove Clinton's security detail to distraction. "The Secret Service guys nearly shot the guy out of the rafters...
...There are a lot less working class type stores, a lot less 5 and Dime stores, or shoe stores catering to working class people," agrees Ruth A. Murray, a cashier at Jimmaize Cafe...