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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'll have a burger," said George
when he walked in the other
morning.
"At 10 in the morning?" wondered
Molly Whiteside as she poured his
cup of coffee before he even got to
the table.
"Somebody's got to eat up all the
extra beef with the border closed," he
shot back.
"Hope you've got a big appetite,"
said Cliff Murray. "I think you might
need a little help to eat that much."
"Well I'm sure not going to get it
from my family," said George. "We
had a family reunion on the weekend.
I was talking to my cousin about all
the problems BSE has caused us and
my sister's daughter butted in and
said she'd never eat beef these days
because it was too dangerous.
Dangerous! This is a girl who drives
one of those little sports cars like she
was Paul Tracy and she worries
about the danger of getting mad cow
disease?"
"Did you tell her that?" asked
Dave Winston.
"I did, and she said there wasn't
any comparison," said George. "I
said for once we agreed."
"Sometimes the way people think
I start wondering if their brains aren't
already infected with something,"
said Dave. "I mean all those people
who won't go to Montreal because
there's SARS in Toronto! Give me a
break."
"Anyway, my niece tells me this
whole mad cow thing has got her
thinking of becoming a vegetarian,"
said George.
"Well then you can sell her your
soybeans instead of your beef," said
Cliff.
"No I can't," replied George.
"She's afraid of spray residues so she
says she's looking at eating only
organic."
"Has a good job, does she?" Dave
wondered.
"Oh it's not that expensive to eat
organic," scoffed Cliff.
"She's a lawyer," said George.
"Anyway, we're talking and she's
telling me how she wants to get back
to nature one minute and then the
next she's telling me about her new
condo on the 25th floor overlooking
Toronto harbour. I said that didn't
seem too close to nature to me. She
told me what a wonderful view she
has of all that water."
"Until the smog rolls in," said
Dave.
"So she's telling me how we have
to get in touch with nature and along
comes a June bug and lands on her
shoulder and she nearly has a
conniption. You'd think it was some
animal escaped from Jurassic Park to
hear her carry on," laughed George.
"Don't you just love family
reunions," said Cliff. "I think I'd
rather walk through a minefield in
Iraq than try to find safe things to
talk about at a family reunion."
"You're telling me," said George.
"I was grumbling to my brother
about all this fuss about gays and
lesbians wanting to get married and
my niece jumps into that one too.
'What's wrong with people who love
each other getting married?' she
wondered."
"Well, what is the problem?",
asked Molly.
"People get married to have kids,"
said George.
"My grandmother got married at
75," said Molly. "You think she's
going to have kids?"
"The thing that's kind of funny
about all this is that fewer and fewer
people are getting married these days
but it's so important for these people
to be able to get married," said Dave.
"It's like cows you let out into a
new field," explained Cliff. "The first
thing they do is try to find a way
through the fence. Tell them they
can't do something and that's what
they want."
"Yeh, as soon as they get the right
to marry then there'll be a lot more
gay divorcees," said Dave.
"Which will make my niece even
richer," said George. "She's a
divorce lawyer."0