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Mabel
's Grill
"I heard the fire department was
out at your place the other night,"
Cliff Murray mentioned to George
McKenzie when he arrived at
Mabel's Monday morning. "Not your
barn, I hope."
"Nope," said George, trying to
ignore the
funny face
Dave Winston
was making
across the
table.
"Oh good.
With all this
wet hay I've
been expecting
the worst
somewhere
around here
this summer.
What was it?"
Dave could
hold in his
glee no longer. ' It was his mail box,"
he burst out, doubling over and
slapping his knee.
It's not that funny!" George
growled.
"Your mail box caught on fire?
How?" wondered Cliff.
"You remember that indestructible
rubber mail box he was bragging
about?" Dave asked. "Remember
how he could hardly wait for some
kid to play mailbox baseball with this
one?"
"Yeh," said Cliff, still looking a
little bewildered.
"They set fire to it," howled Dave.
"You're enjoying this so much
I'm going to suspect it was you," said
George.
"Sounds like somebody was
mighty determined," said Cliff. "I
mean how do you get a mail box to
burn, even if it is recycled rubber."
"The fire chief figures they filled
it with barbecue starter fluid then
threw in a match," said George.
"It cost the township $500 for a
fire call," said Dave. "All for a $50
mailbox."
"Well the next mailbox will cost
more," said George. "I'm through
messing around with mailboxes made
of sheet metal or rubber. I'm getting
serious."
"Oh -oh, sounds like another
challenge," said Dave.
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
"You bet your boots. I brought
some half-inch steel plate and I'm
welding my own mailbox. Darn
thing's so heavy I think I'll need the
front end loader to put it on top of the
post. May need a steel post too to
hold it. But it's worth it. Let them see
if they can beat me this time."
"I'm amazed they could keep that
fire going, even with barbecue fluid,"
said Cliff. "It was raining so hard at
my place that night you'd think the
match would go out."
"You've got to hand it to those
kids for having determination," said
Dave. "This weather's been so wet
and cold you sure wouldn't catch me
out playing any tricks."
"That's because you're getting
old," said Mabel. "I remember when
a little rain didn't stop you from
getting into trouble."
"Yeh, I gotta admit, I'm not sure
I've gotten older and wiser, but I've
definitely gotten older and tireder,"
said Dave.
"Well I know you're not getting
wiser," said George. "You may not
be able to act like a kid but you've
still got a kid's sense of humour."
"At least I've got a sense of
humour," Dave said. "I'm not like
some of you old grouches who can't
see the funny side of anything
anymore."
"Or thinks the whole world's gone
crazy just because people don't think
the way you do," said Molly White-
side as she refilled everybody's
coffee cups.
"I admit it," said George. "I just
can't understand some of the things
that are going on these days. Like the
other day this truck pulls into our
yard and this crane starts lowering
off this humungus rock."
"Let me guess," said Cliff. "Your
wife bought a rock for her garden.
Mine did too. It's the latest thing."
"My grandfather must be rolling
in his grave," said George, shaking
his head. "He spent 40 years picking
stones and piling them in enormous
piles around the farm. My father
spend 30 years making them higher. I
hired somebody not five years ago to
truck the things away and now I'm
paying to get a rock back. It's crazy!"
"You think that's crazy," said
Cliff, "wait 'til you see the bill."0