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12 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel
's Grill
"What's that hunk of junk in the
back of your pickup." Dave Winston
asked George McKenzie the other
Monday morning. "It's not dump day
you know ."
"That is — that was — my mail
box," grumbled
"Uh-oh,
school's out.
It's mail box
baseball time."
guessed Cliff
Murray.
"There was
nothing sporty
about this."
grouched
George. "They
must have got
out of the car
and beat the
poor thing to
death."
"Good for
George.
MABEL'S
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
sales at the co-op." said Dave.
"Sometimes I wonder if they don't
hire kids to beat up a few mail boxes
when sales get slow."
"Well I'll fix the little devils."
said George. "I stopped off at the
hardware store this morning and I
bought one of those rubber mail
boxes made of recycled tires. They
tell me the thing's indestructible."
"Oh -oh, sounds like a challenge to
me," said Cliff. "Don't let any kids
hear you or they'll be out to prove
you're wrong."
"I just wish I could be there when
they hit this one," gloated George. "I
can see their club bouncing right
back and beaning them for a change.
Not that anybody'd notice if it
damaged their brains. I don't know
what gets into these kids today."
"About six beers," said Dave.
"Just like it was in your day," said
Mabel.
"Me? Drink? Surely you jest,"
said Dave.
"I remember seeing you at some
dances way back when. The only
thing higher than you was the space
shuttle," said Mabel.
"Why am I not surprised," said
Molly Whiteside, as she refilled
coffee cups all 'round.
"Hey, back then you had to be
really dedicated to spend your hard-
earned money to get plastered on the
v,eekend," said Cliff. "Not like today
when parents are handing their kids
money every time you turn around."
"Not you though, I' II bet.' said
Molly. counting her tips.
"My brother from the city got his
kids cell phones so he could know
they're safe." said George. "Now
they can phone him any hour of the
day or night to ask for more money."
"Well good luck to my kids if they
tried it with me," said Dave. "Unless
this weather changes in a hurry there
won't be much money to spread
around at our place this year."
"At least you don't have to worry
about hay," said Cliff. "I'm trying to
find a way to feed my sheep hay
stew." .
"They should be putting on weight
though, eh?" asked George.
"You mean because the pasture's
so lush and green?"
"No, I figured with all this rain
their wool would get wet and they'd
weigh a ton," laughed George.
"Yeh, do they shrink when the sun
comes out?," Dave wondered.
"Sure, really, really small — to
about the size of your brain,"
growled Cliff.
"O000h, touchy, touchy," smirked
Dave.
"I get a little tired of the dumb
sheep jokes." said Cliff.
"You mean there are smart sheep
to joke about?" asked George. •
"As if a steer was so smart," said
Cliff.
"They are when it comes to
finding a hole in the pasture fence,"
said George. "Sometimes I swear a
steer can get through a hole just big
enough for a mouse."
"Say, did you hear about that exp-
eriment they had where they grafted
a part of a woman's ovaries onto the
back of a mouse?" asked Dave.
"Ugh, sounds like indecent
exposure to me," said Molly.
"What the heck did they do that
for?" wondered Mabel.
"Seems the graft went ahead and
produced live eggs for women who'd
had cancer treatments and couldn't
produce eggs," said Dave.
"Great, how do you put it on the
family tree that your mother was a
mouse?" George wondered.
"Better than a rat," said Dave.O