HomeMy WebLinkAboutVillage Squire, 1980-01, Page 27McGILLI(UDDY'S DIARY
DECEMBER 3: 1 wish t lose students in
Iran would let the embass, people go. They
can start just too many id :as brewing and
the kids at the high schoo can get enough,
crazy ideas of their own.
Today some of the gra( e nine students
took the good-looking 1 brarian at the
school hostage and said it ey wouldn't let
her go until the princip.I paid for his
"crimes" such as too n any detentions
handed out for students fo tnd smoking in
the washrooms and confiscation raid the
principal made on a secret supply of
homemade wine in the chemistry lab. You
know I don't think those kids really cared if
they ever got their demands or not. They
were having too much fun putting that
librarian through hell, reading out loud the
good parts in Margaret Laurence novels.
DECEMBER 11: 1 see the government's
wanting to put another 18 cents a gallon on
the price of gasoline. Looks like I may be
out on snowshoes a lot this winter unless
the town council discovers a goldmine in
the town park.
DECEMBER 12: Cindy Lou Quagmire was
telling me how she'd like to get down south
to get a tan this year but doesn't think she
can afford it with the economy in such a
mess. She's considering instead going
down to Toronto to one of those tanning
sralons where you pay $50 to get a tan.
Having Cindy Lou stay home ought to do
wonders for tourism in Florida. It will be
safe to walk the beaches down there now.
DECEMBER 14: Well how about that. Just
what we all wanted for Christmas: an
election. I wonder if we don't like what we
get in this election if we can return it and
get something else like we can with
Christmas gifts.
DECEMBER 17: Ike at the Hamhocks
department store was complaining today
that things are really slow. He'd like to
hear some Christmas bells and they're all
on the cashregister. Poor Ike. Times are so
tough for him that I had to give him a
parking ticket today. He couldn't afford to
put a dime in the meter where he'd parked
his new Lincoln.
DECEMBER 18: Well I got my Christmas
present when they gave back the 18 cent a
gallon gas increase. It may mean the
difference between me living through the
winter or getting pneumonia.
DECEMBER 20: Well the election's
already getting going around here. It
didn't take long of course because both
Hal Heachum and Marty Smith had their
posters left over from the spring. The only
problem is that the lawn signs won't stick
in the ground because of the frost.
Anyway 1 don't think we have to worry
about fuel rationing anymore. With this
election underway I expect we're going to
have a mild winter and a lot of cheap heat.
The way Meachum and Smith were
blowing out the old hot air at their
meetings the other night the furnace never
clicked on once.
The horrible part is that I don't think this
is going to be a very representative
election. Come February 18 they're likely
to only have about half of the population of
Hamhocks out to vote unless they put up a
special polling booth at Miami.
Say, I wonder if the elections expences
act would cover a trip to Florida to try to
win votes down there. If it did, maybe I'd
run for Parliament myself.
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