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12 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel's Grill
The
world's
problems
are
solved
daily
'round
the table
at
Mabel's.
"I guess you can go back to
complaining about the weather now,"
Mabel said one day after Premier
Ernie Eves announced he was
freezing electricity rates.
"Good thing too." said Dave
Winston. "The way my hydro was
going up I thought maybe it was me
that was going to freeze this winter."
"You know those guys who have
hydroponic marijuana operations
where they bypass the meter?" asked
Cliff Murray. "I heard some of them
were setting up a consulting service
for farmers."
"It's people like you that backed
Ernie into the corner," said George
McKenzie. "In politics you can't do
the right thing because people get
upset and you can lose your job."
"Yeh well, between the price of
pigs and the price of hydro I was
afraid I was going to lose my job,"
said Dave, "so sure, I'm glad Ernie
was worrying about his."
"Yeh, but now I'll have to pay for
your cheap hydro with my tax
dollars," grumbled George.
"You mean you pay taxes?" asked
Mabel. "The way you farmers
grumble 1 thought you never made
enough money to pay taxes."
"Yes," said Molly Whiteside as
she delivered George's breakfast
order, "I always wondered how you
guys could lose money every year
and still be around."
"It's called farm economics," said
Cliff. "They have a special course in
it at Guelph."
"Yes," said Dave, "we farmers are
especially talented at economics. For
instance, while we're out complain-
ing to the government that they
should be giving us more money
because of the low price of grains
and oilseeds, some of us are going
out and bidding land up to $4,000 or
$5,000 an acre so we can grow more
grains and oilseeds and supposedly
lose more money."
"I guess we figure the government
might as well be spending their
money on us as blowing it
somewhere else," said Cliff.
"Well they sure aren't spending it
on defence," grumbled George. "And
then the defence minister gets upset
because the Americans are telling us
we should carry our own weight."
"What I can never figure out is
why the Americans are always after
us to spend more on defence," said
Molly. "I mean I don't see Iraq's
likely to attack us. The only country
that's ever invaded us is the U.S. so
if our defence forces are better we'd
be more of a problem to them."
"But military terminology is
almost as complicated as farm
economics," said Dave. "They call it
defence but what the Americans want
is for us to spend more money on
more troops so that when they want
to attack Iraq or somebody else we
can help them."
"But they'll decide who and when
they want to attack and then we're
either with them or against them,"
said Cliff.
"Maybe instead of sending
soldiers to Iraq we should send a
beauty pageant," suggested Molly.
"They can be so busy rioting they
won't be able to go to war."
"I always knew women were
troublemakers," said Dave, then
ducked as Molly barely missed his
ear with the coffee pot after she
refilled his cup.
"Say Dave," said George, "you
like to think you're up on the latest
trends in pigs. Have you started
talking to your pigs?"
"I've sworn at them a few times,
but what do you mean?" asked Dave.
"Well 1 was reading about this
Norwegian guy who puts on a rubber
pig mask at feeding time so he looks
like his pigs when he goes into the
barn and exchanges grunts with his
pigs ," said George. "1 -Ie says the pigs
come right up to him, don't squeal."
"And 1 thought pigs were
supposed to be smart," said Cliff.
"They are," said Dave. "As long
as the guy's bringing feed they'll go
along with him no matter how stupid
he looks."0