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12 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel
's Grill
"Whoa, what's,got you dressed up
so fancy?" said George McKenzie
whcn Dave Winston walked in with a
suit on yesterday morning.
"Got to visit the banker," Dave
said. "Time to renew my Zine of
credit."
"I don't
wear a suit
when I visit
the banker,"
said Wayne
Bruce.
"After last
year and the
way hog prices
went through
the floor, I
need all the
help I can
get," said
Dave. "Maybe
this will make
me look like I'm a good
businessman."
"It might help more if you bought
a new tie," said Molly Whiteside as
she filled his coffee cup, being very
careful not to drip any coffee on his
suit. "That one's so narrow it's years
out of style."
"How do you know?" asked Cliff
Murray. "It seems to me they're
always going back and forth between
wide ties and narrow ties. Maybe
he's just on the leading edge."
"The leading edge. Yeh, 1 like
that," said Dave. "It would probably
be the only time in history I'm ahead
of the fashion."
"Now if you can just convince the
banker of that," said Molly.
"That'd be simple compared to
what I've got to convince him of,"
said Dave. "I mean I'd have a hard
time convincing myself that I deserve
an extended line of credit after the
last year."
"Yeh, but wasn't he the guy who
was trying to persuade you to borrow
money and build a contract hog barn
a year before the packing plant
strike?" asked Cliff. "He should be so
glad he's not stuck out on a limb that
he should be with you all the way."
"Funny thing how short a banker's
memory is when he's the one who's
wrong," said George.
"Interesting isn't it," said Dave,
"You've got your fashion cycles and
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
your price cycles but the banker
always stays the same."
"Oh I don't know," said George.
"Sometimes when I don't want to
borrow he's almost pushing money
into my hands and sometimes when I
need moncy, you'd swear it was
coming out of his own piggy bank,
he's so stingy."
"See, that's what I mean," said
Dave. `Bankers are always the same.
The only time they want to loan you
money is when you don't need it."
"Alright, leave the poor banker
alone for a while," Mabel grumbled.
"Beat up on one of your other hobby
horses for a while like the weather or
hockey."
"Oh hockcy, it's too soon in the
playoffs to worry about that," said
Dave. "If you start watching this
early your wife isn't speaking to you
before you get to the semi- finals."
"Yeh, and you'll find it tough to
find time to get the seeding in," said
Cliff. "The one good thing about the
way the hockey season goes on for-
ever is you're into haying season
before they wind up. You can't be
bringing in the hay at night anyway."
"Maybe by the finals it will be
safe to watch," said Wayne. "I mean
those government ads about all the
wonderful things they've been doing
have got to the point I change
channels just to miss them."
"Yeh," said Molly, "I've worn out
two sets of batteries on the remote in
the last couple of wecks."
"They're just trying to get the
truth out 'cause the unions and the
teachers are bashing them," said
George.
"Yeh, with $100 million of our
money," grouched Cliff.
"Funny thing though," said Dave,
"from that poll that came out it seems
the more money they spend on ads
the farther they're getting behind."
"I'II have to remember that excuse
the new time the salesman from the
TV station comes around wanting me
to advertise for the store," said
Wayne who owns the shoe store
downtown. "I'll tell him I'll be more
popular and save money if I don't
advertise."
`Besides," said Cliff, "the TV
station should already be rich from
our tax money."0