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12 THE RURAL VOICE
The World from Mabel's Grill
Mabel has been getting a little
edgy as the griping level has
increased in the past couple of
months at the morning coffee break
session at the Grill.
What with with the drought that
seems to go
on forever and
bad prices for
about every
commodity in
sight the
discussions
have become
blacker and
blacker.
"When
people feel
hard up, they
eat less and
our prices go
down," griped
Dave
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
Winston. "How come your prices
never go down Mabel?"
"They don't have to," Mabel
replied as she delivered Dave's toast
and coffee instead of his usual
breakfast special. "When you guys
are feeling hard up you eat less and
my income goes down."
"Wish I could get my steers to eat
Tess when times get tough," George
McKenzie said.
"Yeh, but you're trying to fatten
your steers up so they have to eat a
lot," said Molly Whiteside. "You
guys hardly need any more fattening."
"I heard some expert saying we
had to prepare for the bad times
ahead because of the stock market
crash in the far east and the dollar's
problems here," Mabel said. "What
I'd like to know was how I missed
the good times that are supposed to
be just about over."
"You've just got to find new ways
of generating revenue," said George.
• "Yeh," said Molly, "for this lot
instead of charging for the coffee but
letting them sit around all day, you
should charge rent for the chair and
give the coffee away."
"I was down in the big city the
other day and my brother-in-law took
me to the open house of the new
building the Leafs are going to play
in," said Cliff Murray. "It's not
Maple Leaf Gardens anymore but the
Air Canada Centre. Maybe you could
get somebody to pay you to rename
the restaurant, Mabel. Instead of
Mabel's Grill it could be John Deere
Grill."
"Hey, hey, it would naturally be
the Case IH Grill," corrected Dave.
"Kind of convoluted name isn't
it?" Mabel wondered. "People
wouldn't know if they were coming
in for food or tractor parts."
"So what are you going to do to
get extra revenue George?" Molly
wondered.
"Hey, living beside the highway
like he does, he could sell advertising
on his cows," Dave said. "I heard
about this farmer somewhere who put
blankets on his cows and sold the
space as walking billboards."
"Oh I can see it," George said,
"this cow sponsored by Cutter and
Hackum Meat Market. Come back in
six months for a taste."
"Why not cows, they're adver-
tising on everything else," said
Wayne Bruce. "Remember when you
you used to watch a hockey game
and you got a rest from people
bugging you — at least until the
commercial came? Now you get ads
on the boards and ads on the ice and
you can't get away from somebody
pushing stuff at you every second.
And all so some hockey player can
make $8 million a year instead of $6
million."
"And those so-called `amateur'
athletes look like walking graffitti,"
added Cliff.
"I hope this sponsorship thing
doesn't get carried much further,"
said Dave. "I'd hate to see where it
could lead. I mean, the way the
health care system is going, I can
imagine the government selling spon-
sorship on ambulances. Can you
imagine being wheeled out to the
ambulance after you've had a heart
attack and there's a big sign that
says: `Guardian Life Insurance: now
don't you wish you'd bought more?"
"Or police cars sponsored by Tim
Horton's," said Mabel.
"Or how about a sharp funeral
director selling the sponsorship of his
place like the Leafs did," said
Wayne. "Maxwell House Funeral
Home, — good to your last drop."0