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10 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel's Grill
The
world's
problems
are
solved
daily
'round
the table
at
Mabel 's.
Mabel said she was thinking of
adding the weather to the list of
prohibited subjects for discussion in
her restaurant after hearing some of
the language being used during
May's imitation of March.
"You're soon not going to give us
anything to talk about at all and we'll
stop coming," Dave Winston
reminded her one morning.
"Yeh, you might be the only
person I know who's actually
benefiting from this weather." said
Cliff Murray. "If it was warm and
dry I'd be out on the tractor planting
my soybeans instead of in here
having coffee."
"Besides, give us a break," said
George McKenzie. "We need some
way to let off steam because of all
the trouble the weather's causing."
"Yeh, who do you complain to
when the weather's rotten?"
wondered Dave. "I mean if your
kid's failing in school, you can call
up the principal and grouch at her. If
it's the Nutrient Management Act,
you call you MPP. If it's the
American Farm Bill, you can call
your MP and complain the feds
aren't matching it. But the vrieather,
there's nobody."
"Yeh it would be so much easier
if you could blame the government,"
said Cliff.
"Oh please," said George. "If the
government was in charge it would
be fouled up even worse than it is
now. They'd be giving all the good
weather to Quebec."
"You know there's all this talk
about another terrorist attack, you
don't suppose Bin Laden has actually
found a way to mess up the
weather?" said Cliff. "I mean that
would be a way of really throwing
the economy in the dumper."
"If this guy can control the
weather, maybe he really does have
God on his side," said Dave.
"Well I wonder what they could
be up to this time," said Cliff. "I
mean the World Trade Centre and
the Pentagon are a pretty tough act to
to follow and yet even then, despite
all the lives lost, the economy only
dipped for a few months and then
picked up again. I don't think this is
what Bin Laden had in mind."
"That's why I'd be worried about
food if I was the government," said
George. "Just imagine the disruption
if he could somehow screw up the
food system. People would starve."
"You don't need to go that far,"
said Dave. "All he's got to do is find
a way to block all the drive-through
windows. So many people have
forgotten how to cook that they'd
never survive if they couldn't get it
served to them."
"Yeh, imagine if we really had
some big catastrophe and there was
no frozen food in the stores. Millions
of people wouldn't know how to
cook food from scratch."
"Just imagine," said Cliff to
Mabel, "people would be lining up to
get in your door just like they would
be at an emergency ward if there was
a big accident."
"And they'd probably expect to
get their food for nothing because it's
an emergency," Mabel grumbled.
"Welcome to the club," said
George.
"With the way we've been losing
farmers in the last five years it won't
be long before any terrorist could
starve the country just by stopping
the ships and planes from coming
in," said Cliff. "We soon won't be
producing anything here."
"Yeh but the Americans will have
Tots of surplus to ship us by truck,"
said Dave. "With this new Farm Bill
their government is going to make
sure they never run short of food."
"The Americans see food as a
weapon to make other people go
along with their policies," said Cliff.
"They're going to beat us down with
corn and soybeans."
"If our government thinks of food
as a weapon we're in real trouble,"
said George. "If our government
spends on farmers like it does on the
military, we might as well sell out
right now."0