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12 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel's Grill
"Okay, I've had it!" stormed
George McKenzie one blustery day
recently. "If I can find anybody to
buy my property I'm going farming
in Texas or Brazil or any place where
you don't get buried by snow six
months of the year!"
"Yeh," said
Dave Winston,
"I was getting �� MABEL ' s
low on feed so
I blew the lane
out, called the
feed company
and by the
time the truck
got there, he
got stuck
turning around
in the yard and
I had to tow
him out and
then blow the
lane out in
front of him all the way to the road."
"I can't believe you guys," said
Molly Whiteside as she refilled
coffee cups all 'round. "Didn't I hear
you telling the young guys last year
how they had to learn to be tough
like you were back when there were
real old-fashioned winters?"
"Yeh, and that was before you had
snowblowers too," said Wayne Bruce.
"Imagine if you'd had to shovel that
truck all the way to the road."
"Back then we didn't have to
worry about the feed truck," said
George. "We had all the feed we
needed."
"Yeh, and that was before they
held you up to ransom for the cost of
diesel to blow the lane out," said
Cliff Murray.
"Not to mention trying to keep
your home warm," said Dave.
"Sometimes I think there's a pipeline
leading directly from my bank
account to Alberta."
"I thought you used to boast about
your combination wood and oil
furnace," said Wayne. "You bragged
you'd never have to be held ransom
by the oil companies."
"Yeh, well, I kinda got tired being
held ransom by the wood pile,"
admitted Dave sheepishly.
"Maybe these high oil prices are
Albertans getting their revenge for
Ontario not voting Alliance," said
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at MabeI's
Mabel.
"Yeh, maybe we should be the
ones who are discontent," said
Wayne. "Maybe we could even have
a separatist movement."
"Except where would we get our
gas and oil if we separated?" said
Molly.
"Quebec doesn't seem to be
worried about things like that," said
Dave.
"Quebec doesn't seem to worry
about anything practical.when it
comes to separation," said Cliff.
"Well if we'd voted for Alliance
we'd have kept Alberta happy and
we'd have gotten some income tax
breaks for ourselves," said George.
"You've got income to have taxes
on, have you?" wondered Molly.
"The way you guys complain in here
I thought you'd be worried about
applying for welfare, not how big
your tax bill is."
- "Well I don't know about the
merits of the Alliance tax plan versus
Conservative tax plan versus the
Liberal tax bill, but the way I figure
it, any money you make from
farming should be tax free," said
Dave.
"How do you figure that?"
wondered Wayne.
"Well they don't tax your money
if you win the lottery, do they?," said
Dave. "I figure farming is such a
gamble that if you make any money,
you shouldn't have to pay tax."
"Seems fair," said George. "The
odds seem to be about the same as
the 649."
"Oh get off it," said Molly in
disgust. "Who's driving the $35,000
crew cab truck and who's driving the
1989 Ford Escort?"
"Yeh, but my truck's a business
expense?," said George.
"When was the last time you had
a steer in the back of that thing?"
wondered Molly.
"You wouldn't want to get the
box dirty!" said Cliff.
"Besides, we're big enough
farmers today you can't use a pickup
for cattle," said George. "I still get
plenty of business use for the pick-
up."
"Yeh, he needs it to get to busin-
ess meetings," said Dave. "He drives
here every morning, doesn't he?"0