Breakaway News Volume No. 10 Issue No. 12 December 2005

Christmas Rush

So you’ve survived Black Friday, and the pummeling of the shopping frenzy. Now you need to send that gift item across the Tri-State area. Well, Breakaway has been deputized by Santa to help deliver all your holiday cheer. From cards to cartons, we can help. We just won’t be wearing the red Santa suit.

White Christmas?

November 29^th: 69 degrees outside! The calendar may say it’s late fall outside, but you could be excused for thinking it’s July when you see our messengers wearing shorts and muscle tees. We’re wondering if it’ll be cold enough to make a winter wonderland in our fair burg this year. Or maybe, we just have really tough messengers.

Christmas Rush II

Black Friday is famous as the time when everyone hits the stores after Thanksgiving. For shoppers so stuffed with turkey they couldn’t waddle out of the house, there’s now an online equivalent. “Cyber Monday” is the time when people who’ve just come back from holiday travel fire up their computers to shop. It’s a lot like Black Friday; just without the body checking. You can also place your delivery request with Breakaway online. A few clicks of the mouse, and a Santa deputized messenger will show up faster than Rudolph the Reindeer.

D’oh!

In October, we asked you to name the person who walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers. The answer we provided was Phillipe Lefitte. We were subsequently corrected. Susan Knox was the first to inform us that the name actually is Phillipe Petit. Our bad. (Non-street translation: That was entirely our fault. We do apologize).

Meet the Staff

Name: Mahamadou Daffe.

Position: Phone Operator

Nickname: “Daff.”

Years at Breakaway: Three.

Favorite Customer: Jam’s Chantal.

Favorite Artists: Bob Marley, Tracy Chapman, Jagged Edge, and many, many more.

Likes: Soccer, Muay Thai, and travel.

Dislikes: “I have dislikes?”.

Favorite Saying: None noted.

Stump the Band…

Last month, we asked two questions: What American food item nearly killed the Pilgrims and, as a bonus, what is a Roc? The answers: corn almost led to the pilgrims starving. It has to be processed with lye to release its nutrients, which the natives knew, but the pilgrims didn’t. A Roc is a mythical, giant bird of Persia.

Coffee Mug Question

 “Car Talk” hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi of Cambridge have been dispensing advice about cars, along with healthy doses of comedy, over Public Radio for close to thirty years now. On what radio station did they get their start? The first person to call John Handrik this month will win not a coveted Breakaway t-shirt, but a coveted Breakaway coffee mug. We’re fickle like that.