User talk:Crazybagladies

By their name the Crazy Bag Ladies are NOT what they may seem and certainly not what they are…

Since the 2004 inception of this extraordinary company, there have been a small number of people who thought that the name Crazy Bag Ladies was a shot against homeless elderly women, some of whom may possess a certain wifty eccentricity. Well, it is time to set the record straight as they say. For these mother-daughter business partners who happen to be Italian-Americans from Chicago, the name has much deeper meaning…at least to the women who created it.

In old wiseguy lore – that’s right – WISEGUY LORE – as in Syndicate, hoodlums, Mafia, there are stories about the various men who did certain jobs. Most of us from those old neighborhoods knew several of these “guys”. Some were numbers runners; others were bookies, while others were “collectors”. There was yet another job, delegated only to someone very trustworthy and low-key. This individual had to be alert, and able to protect the family’s interests from street thieves, hustlers, muggers and other business rivals who might steal the “bag”. These guys are called “bagmen”, simply because they “carry the bag” (of money) back to the boss. Long ago, there was one of these guys named Danny. His nickname was, of course, “Danny Boy”. Not original but that was his moniker. As time past, Danny Boy became moody. Who knows what his problem was, but here went from Danny Boy, a GOOD bagman to Crazy Danny. So it came to pass that when the web site started, the two family partners thought about the guys who always had those grimy paper bags full of money. Then they thought about Crazy Danny. And they wanted to make lots of money, so they decided that they would become the ultimate “bag” people. They would become: The Crazy Bag Ladies. Now, that is the truth of the matter. If any of you knew the ladies or their history, you would definitely understand that they are, without a doubt, the quintessential crazybagladies – That is, they are the http://www.crazybagladies.com --Crazybagladies 20:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)