Darryl was trying to get everybody up," the manager recalled, "but I told him: 'Your part is not yelling and screaming.

"Last year we didn't have a good Saturday practice," recalled the general manager, George Young.

The manager recalled the man at the rear table.

"He was 19 and he was precocious," the manager recalled.

You couldn't make this much money,"' recalled a former manager who asked not to be identified.

One manager recalled how workers stashed the copier and new staplers in a locked room.

"Everybody said it was a gamble," the general manager recalled.

Very often in such cases older managers and workers can recall the times when the business was run by the family.

It was crowded, a manager recalled, and the man flashed a gun stuck in his waistband and demanded money.

Some people in St. Louis were critical of the trade, the general manager recalled.