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The Rural Voice, 2006-08, Page 14CANADA SERVICE CENTRE INC. - 479 MacEwan Street, Goderich • N7A 4M 1 YOUR LOCAL SUPPLIER ISO 9002 REGISTERED For All Your Steel Needs - Industrial - Residential - Commercial - Farming Hot roll flats, angles, tubing, sheet, plate, rebar, mesh matts, stainless, aluminum, cold roll flats, angles, etc. www.canadasteel.ca Please Call: TOLL FREE: 1-888-871-7330 PHONE: (519) 524-8484 FAX: (519) 524-2749 DRAINAGE Specializing in: Plastic Tile Installation kite I Dow Serax tr Septic System Installation tf For Quality, Experience, & Service, call: 'aj 8©ocA (WI %) 23S ©7 390 R.R. #2 Zurich, Ont. NOM 2T0 PARKER ©PARKER 11_111.011 I=4 www.hay.neV-drainage 10 THE RURAL VOICE Mabel's Grill The world's problems are solved daily 'round the table at Mabel's. "What, is the air conditioning broken?" George McKenzie asked Mabel one hot day last week. "No, it's working," said Mabel. "Well with the price you charge for your food you'd think you could afford to turn it up a little," grumbled George. _ "I've got it set at 24 just like the government suggests," said Mabel. "Ya right, I wonder if Premier McGuinty really keeps his thermostat at 24," said George. "Oh the hardship of it all," said Molly Whiteside as she delivered George's coffee. "How come when you come in here in the winter you complain if the temperature's not 23 or 24 degrees," said Mabel, "but in the summer it's too hot if the temperature's above 20." "A guy's got the right to enjoy his coffee in comfort," said George. "I'd think you'd be old enough to remember when there was no air conditioning," said Cliff Murray. "Which is why I don't want to go back to the not -so -good old days," said George. "Yeh, when people get all nostalgic about their youth they tend to have selective memories," said Dave Winston. "I mean people talk about global warming today but I don't think many of them were out there throwing hay bales around in the old days." "Or throwing sheaves on a wagon for harvest," said George. "And imagine what it must have been like for people to go to the beach way back when they were clothed from head to foot," said Molly. "It's a wonder they didn't drown." "And what do you wear to the beach now7" leered Dave. "Two handkerchiefs held on by string?" "I wear a sensible one-piece bathing suit," said Molly, "and not one of those that goes up your butt at the back either." "You're no fun," said Dave. "You know it made me feel old when I heard the bikini is 60 years old this year," said George. "Of course we didn't see bikinis except in the newspaper for the first long time. It was a scandalous, ridiculous French thing." "Yes, remember when that song came out about the itsy bitsy bikini that the girl was afraid to wear in . public?" chipped in Mabel. "I rem- ember when girls were really nervous about exposing so much skin." "Well they sure got over that!" said Cliff. "Now a lot of them don't leave much to the imagination." "And not just on the beach, either," said Dave. "I think women's fashion must have taken its lessons from fan dancers like Gypsy Rose Lee," said Mabel. "They expose this bit of anatomy, then cover it up and expose another bit." "Well I've had more than enough of all those paunchy middles being exposed for the last few years," said George. "You should talk," said Molly. "I guess we should be grateful men haven't followed the trend." "Bad enough when they take their shirts off at the beach," said Mabel. "Well if you don't turn the air conditioning up you may be seeing my paunchy stomach in here," said George. "Didn't you see my sign: 'No shoes, no shirt, no service'?" asked Mabel. "Well I've got the shirt and I've got the shoes but I haven't got much service," grumbled Dave. "You've got your food and I've refilled your coffee cup twice," said Molly. "What more do you want." "I dunno, maybe some place that's a little more exciting," said Dave. "Mabel, don't you'd think you'd get more business if you dressed Molly in one of those Hooter's outfits?" "Just turn off the air conditioning altogether," George told Mabel. "You'll keep the premier happy and if Molly has to strip down you'll keep Dave happy too."0