The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-02-09, Page 26r
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Page 6—Crossroads—Feb. 9, 1983
At wit's end
by Erma ®ombacia
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Fled 1anTrWao. 9or
By Erma Rombeck
There's a special place in
heaven for people who have
sold their home where the
sun always shines, birds
always sing and you can
cook sauerkraut and liver
whenever you want.
Our old house is up for
sale.
There has been only one
other occasion when so many
strangers have passed
through my room saying
things I did not want to hear
and talking like I wasn't
there, and that was two
years ago When I had sur-
gery.
A woman has ambivalent
feelings about her house. On
the one hand she considers it
a dump. Why else would she
be moving? The closets have
shrunk, the utility room can
be used by no more than two
trolls at one time and face it,
when was the last time a
house outlived its warran-
ties?
On the other hand, it's a
monument to good taste and
cleverness, and a shrine to
liquid bleach.
The trick to selling a home
is to make it look like no one
has ever lived in it. It's a
model home that has none of
the trappings of human
existence. (Toilet paper,
waste cans, cooking odors,
newspapers, dogs or child-
ren.) During the first week,
the call from the realtor who
is bringing a prospective cli-
ent is a challenge. (Code
red! Prospect due in 15
minutes!)
With the precision of the
USC band, everyone goes to
his appointed station. Food is
jerked from top of stove and
hid in oven. AR cupboard
doors secured. Muddy boots
into dishwasher. (They.
never look there.) News-
papers, plates and glasses
from living room dumped in
freezer. Detergent, bottles of
pills, dead plant removed
from kitchen window sill and
shoved in handbag. Dog bed
and dog shoved in back seat
of car in garage.
One person stands guard
over closed door to kids' bed-
room and explains child in-
side is contagious.
These elaborate man-
euvers completed, the pro-
spective customer will stand
'in the entranceway and ask,
"DOes this carpet come with
the house?" When assured it
does, she will sniff, "Then I
don't want it," and walk out.
One cannot sell a house un-
less one can handle rejec-
tion. It becomes a way of life.
Week after week, month
after month, they file
through as the bitterness
grows within you until one
day you. stop caring. As the
prospective customer comes
through the front door, you
don't care that the gym
shorts are indoors and burn.
your eyes, a burnt skillet is
soaking in the sink, a wet
towel is on the living room
sofa and the dog just sunk his
teeth into a shopper's thigh.
There is always the possi-
bility that coming through
your front door is a person
who sees beneath the human
condition and says, "Now
here's a house you could live
in."
BOOK REVIEW
HOW ST. FRANCIS TAMED
THE WOLF. Retold from the
'Legend of St. Francis of
Assisi by Elizabeth Rose.
Illustrated by Gerald Rose.
The Bodley Head, London.
( In Canada: Clarke, Irwin &
Company Limited. Toronto.
$11.50) 83 by 19 in. 26 pp.
Reviewed by
PERCY MADDUX
While Elizabeth Rose has
retold the story of St. Fran-
cis and the Wolf, it is accom-
panied by drawings by
Gerald Rose picturing St.
Francis, the wolf, and the
people in a cartoon or
caricature way. St. Francis,
for instance, needs a shave
and goes about like a hobo.
Of course, this is a book to
amuse children, and very
likely it will do so; still, we
can't help but note the ab-
surdity of it, not only in the
drawings but in the story it-
self, for Francis"buys off the
wolf by guaranteeing him
food put out for him indefin-
itely by the townspeople, and
this of course makes the wolf
tame, at which time it would
be easy enough to despatch
him unawares and be rid of
him for good.
Lindbergh birthdate
American aviator Charles
Lindbergh was horn at De-
troit, Mich., on Feb. 4, 1902.
zehrs'�
fine markets... of fine foods
SPECIALS IN EFFECT
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 9
UNTIL CLOSING TUES. FEB. 15
Fresh store made
DELUXE PIZZA 14-
Schneiders Regular or
BEEF BOLOGNA
York sliced
COOKED HAM
Schneiders Cooked sliced
ROAST BEEF
3.99
4.83,k9
2.191b.
5.49/k9
.2.491b.
12.10/kg
�.49Ib.
BONELESS CENTRE CUT
PORK LOIN
CHOPSOR ROASTS
5.71.. 2.59.
FRESH CENTRE CUT
PORK LOIN
FAST FRY CHOPS
4•83, Z f9
SCHNEIDERS
RING STYLE
6.37,kg
POLISH SAUSAGE .. 2.891b.
SCHNEIDERS
VACUUM PACKED 5.49/kg
RING BOLOGNA 2.491b.
SCHNEIDERS
FAMILY PACK - 1 kg
BEEF BURGERS 4.79
SCHNEIDERS
REGULAR OR CHEESE
SMOKIES 300 g L89
PRODUCT OF ONTARIO
MUSHROOMS
PRODUCT OF U.S.A.
BOK CHOY
PRODUCT OF U.S.A.
NAPPA
437/kg
1.981b.
1,30/kg
59#Ib.
1.30kg
S9#1b.
PROD, OF CALIF. CAN. NO. 1
CELERY STALKS EA. 891,
PRODUCT OF CALIF. - SIZE 138 Boz.
NAVEL ORANGES 189
PRODUCT OF
FLORIDE
CAN. #>` 1
VINE RIPE
TOMATOES
8/LARGE SIZE
kg
COMBINATION
tJDC[TPACK
POR
EACH PKG. CONTAINS:
3 Centre Cut Pork Chops
3 Rib Portion Pork Chops
3 Tenderloin Portion Chops
LOIN CHOPS
/kg
I
CUT FROM CANADA GRADE 'A' BEEF
TENDER JUICY
J"
RIB ROAST
5
COUNTRY STYLE RIB PORTION
PORK LOIN
TENDERLOIN PORTION
FRESH LOIN
PORK ROAST
3.95/9
1.79.
3.95,,,
f.79.,
NOND ON NAME
LIN
SIDE BACON
NO NAME
KNACKWURST
439,.9
f.99,,
375 g 129
NEW COUNTRY GOLD
ROUND
DINNER HAM
6.59, 2.
99..
NEW COUNTRY GOLD
•
SLICED
CORNED BEEF
FOUR
50 g PKGS.
SCHNEIDERS
SKINLESS OR DUTCH TREAT
454 g
`-
WIENERS
f.79
I
PRODUCT OF
CALIFORNIA
CAN. It 1
1'
MAPLE LEAF SLICED
SIDE BACON
3 VARIETIES
.5d g 9
49
MAPLE LEAF SAUSAGE
GOLDEN FRY
5W9PKG f.99
MAPLE LEAF - 6 VARIETIES
L 250 g
PKG.
DELI MEAT
f.69
PRODUCT OF
ONTARIO
CANADA FANCY
MACINTOSH
3 LB.
BAG
5 -
SPRING COLOURFUL
FLOWERS CROCUS
AN IDEAL GIFT FOR BLOOMING
YOUR VALENTINE AZALEA
TULIPS `Rosins
DAFFODILS OR HYACINTHS
POT
4" POT
7 POT
BUNCH OF 4
L49
1195
5.99
ALSO AVAILABLE IN MOST STORES
Tropical Dish Gardens
Potted Mums, Mixed Pans
Fresh Cut Mixed Bouquets
Hybiscus
FRESH "CENTRE CUT"
PORK LD1
CH
FROM GRADE 'A' BEEF
TENDER RIB
STEAK
93,.9
42.69
Ib.
PRODUCT OF FLORIDA
LIMES
PROD. OF ONT.
COLE SLAW
8 oz.
4/69'
2/99'
PROD. OF FLA. PINK OR WHITE
SIZE �/�9
PRODUCT OF U.S.A.
RADISHES 1 LB. �9
GRAPEFRUIT
PROD. OF CALIF. - BUNCHES
GREEN ONIONS 3/99#
PRODUCT OF U.S.A.
CANADA N0. 1 GRADE
RED
EMPEROR
GRAPES