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10 THE RURAL VOICE
The World from Mabel's Grill
The group seems to be lingering
longer these mornings and when
Mabel joked she might have to raise
the price of coffee to chase the guys
out sooner, Cliff Murray said he'd be
glad to pay.
"I have to
stay out of my
wife's way,"
he said. "With
this nice
weather she
keeps dream-
ing up outside
work for me to
do."
"I know
what you
mean," said
George
McKenzie.
"Normally I
can make an
excuse that I have to get my own
work done before winter but the
weather's stayed good so long I've
got everything done."
"And there's no snowblowing to
do in the mornings and no pipes to
thaw in the barn," said Dave
Winston. "I get back to the house so
early my wife starts lining up inside
work for me to do."
"I solve that by saying I have to
do the books," said Cliff. "Then I go
into my office and play computer
games."
"The other night I could see the
wheels turning and figured the wife
was planning a long list so I offered
to take the whole family to the
movies to throw her off ," said Dave.
"Boy that was a mistake."
"Not a good movie?" George
wondered.
"Well the only thing that was on
at the local theatre was Babe: Pig in
the City," said Dave.
"I heard that was really good,"
said Molly Whiteside as she refilled
Dave's cup.
"The kids liked it fine, but I go out
to the movies to take my mind off
work so the last thing I need, with
prices the way they are, is to watch a
pig talking all night. I mean I already
think I'm going crazy."
"Yeh but he's so cute!" Molly
said. "I saw the first movie."
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
"That's what my youngest said,"
complained Dave. "Then when 1
wanted to ship some pigs the next
day he cried and cried and said I was
cruel for killing Babe's cousins."
"What can you expect when they
make the pig the smartest thing in the
movie," George said.
"I mean I cry when I ship pigs
these days too," said Wayne, "but I'd
cry more if 1 kept the darned things
at home and had to feed them much
longer."
"I feel for you," said George. "I'm
just glad nobody thinks steers are
cuddly enough to star in a movie."
"You don't suppose they released
that movie in Japan first and that's
why the market for pork crashed,"
wondered Dave.
"There ought to be a law," said
George.
"I've got more trouble for you,"
said Wayne Bruce. "My kids hauled
me out to sec A Bug's Life. With this
animation now, they can even make
insects cute and cuddly."
"And intelligent," said Molly. "I
mean that Flik is one smart ant."
"Oh great," said Cliff, "now the
loonies will be protecting bugs too."
"At least nobody eats bugs so that
can't hurt the market," said George.
"Yeh but how long before you've
got campaigns to keep you from
spraying the bugs that eat your
crops," said Wayne. "Wouldn't do to
kill off all those cute creatures."
"I hate Walt Disney," grouched
George. "I mean since my grand-
daughter got a copy of Bambi for
Christmas two ycars ago she's been
on me every fall about deer hunting."
"I've got a quick solution to the
bug thing," said Cliff. "Send a fcw
apples to market with worms in
them."
"Ugh," Molly shuddered.
"Or stick a fcw of thosc big ugly
tomato worms in a basket of
tomatoes at the supermarket," said
George.
"Ohhh," groaned Molly, turning
the colour of a tomato worm.
"See, I knew it would work," said
Cliff. "Now how do we turn people
off pigs?"
"Let them see the prices," said
Dave.O