The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-04-06, Page 22MEP
Page 10—Crossroads—April 6, 1983
Shirley Whittin
ton
Last week I walked into a
bank and for a minute I
thought I was in the YMCA
gym. There in front 'of me
were fourline-ups of sweaty
people — just like the bend
and stretch squads organ-
ized by beautiful Marlene
our Y fitness instructor.
I was wrong. The line-ups
were composed of people
waiting to get at their
money. Ever since money
got tight, banks have stopped
displaying sailboats and
stereos and all the other good
things a bank loan can buy.
Instead they fill in the spaces
between the faulty pens and
the tellers with rows of
people — a kind of human
line of credit.
The banking industry has
noted the increase in line-ups
and has mounted an appeal-
ing radio commercial which
tells us that banks don't like
up routine
long line-ups any more than
we do. They hint darkly that
the line-ups are our fault
anyway, for wanting to get at
our money. (I'd like to hint
darkly that the banks sell a
skyscraper and hire an extra
teller. )
I usually carry a book with
me, so I was able to finish a
chapter while I stood in line.
Then I dashed around the
corner to the post office.
Here the line-up was so
long it almost obscured the
sign announcing the recent
increase in postal rates. I
fished out my book, and
began a new chapter. The
line inched along, at the
speed of a glacier. We shuf-
fled along, sheeplike and un-
complaining, in our parkas
and John Deere baseball
caps.
My next stop was the
supermarket where line-ups
stretched into aisles, bi-
sected one another or died
suddenly when a cashier an-
nounced, "I'm closing here."
Dozens of people stood buggy
to bum. Little kids whined
for Smarties. Shoppers
leafed furtively through the
National Enquirer. The
canned music played on and
somewhere up ahead the
cash register guillotined
money. I finished my chap-
ter. I finished my book.
Once outside, I lined up
again at the carry -out gate to
pick up my groceries. Then
after a relatively short line-
up at the gas station, I was
home.
The Squire was terribly
worried. "What took you so
long?" he said. "Is the car
okay?" (This is what he al-
ways says when he is terri-
bly worried.)
I explained that I'd been
standing around downtown
reading a book.
The fact is that line-ups
have become part of Cana-
dian life and we endure them
with a stoic patience that re-
flects our overseas ancestry.
The Brits are famous for
orderly queuing and we have
all seen pictures of sad
middle Europeans with
shopping bags lining up for
bread and horsemeat.
Canadians may soon
achieve the ultimate line-up
rationale, which is where one
lines up first and later asks
what the line-up is for.
But lining -up isn't all bad.
Line-ups give buskers em-
ployment.
A line-up is a good place to
catch up on your reading,
providing you remember to
bring your glasses.
And a line-up is a good
place to think because you
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are not likely to be inter-
rupted — certainly not by
anyone saying "May I help
you?" I wouldn't be sur-
prised if some of the world's
,great thinkers like Harold
Ballard and Margie Trudeau
got some of, their best in-
spirations while they were
waiting in line somewhere.
Just recently I have had the
following thoughts while
waiting in line:
When you lose ten pounds
where does it go?
Is the PC theme song
"There's no business like Joe
business?"
Is it just coincidence that
the humorous is close to the
funny bone?
Why don't people talk to
their plants any more?
You see how enriching and
rewarding standing in line
can be? Meanwhile, you
have probably noticed that
banks control crowds with
velvet ropes.
That's just one more way
to string a line.
ural water .se
Rural households in On-
tario use less water than
their urban counterparts but
it costs more, says a Univer-
sity of Guelph agricultural
engineer.
Professor Ross Irwin says
rural households use bet-
ween 40 and 60 gallons of
water a day per capita while
the consumption in urban
households is approximately
100 gallons, based on a rural
water use study conducted in
McGillivray Township near
Parkhill, Ont.
"I suspect this difference
is largely because of urban
activities like Lawn -water-
ing," he says. "People on the
farm tend to be more con-
scious of their use of water so
they tend to save it."
One of the main problems
is that design data for water
use in rural areas is simply
based on urban data and
overestimates the actual
use, he says.
If actual use is signifi-
cantly lower, less expensive
methods of distribution could
be used, he says. For exam-
ple, smaller pipe could be
used in rural areas, cutting
material and installation
costs.
"In urban areas, 8 to 10
inch pipe is generally used to
meet the heavy demand," he
says. "In rural areas, the
same pipe is being installed
while two to three inch pipe
might be more cost effici-
ent."
Your
Handwriting
Tells
You terrify
male admirers
By DOROTHY
ST. JOHN JACKSON
Certified Master
Graphoanalyst
Dear Dorothy: I'm 27, at-
tractive, intelligent and
healthy. Men , like me, but
not enough, f• ,have plenty
of dates- with flirting, flat-
tery and good times, but
then I'm back home again
with nothing to my benefit
but a free dinner.
I am plenty popular, but
I'd just like to know why
the men I have dated and
had a good rapport with
have all asked more
modest girls to marry
them? — P.V.
Dear P.V.: There's a kind
of invisible obstruction be-
tween you and a close rela-
tionship with anyone. A
man doesn't know until he
moves forward that his ad-
vances have been blocked.
You are a queenly person,
in appearance. Your writ-
ing stands straight and un-
bendable, just as you do.
You are extremely intel-
ligent, displayed in the
deep n wedges, You're a
fluent conversationalist,
too, as seen in the rhythm
of your writing, and open
tops on o and a.
Then, combine very tall
t's, and we see that you
begin, all too soon, to im-
press your admirers with
your own exaggerated self-
importance. This terrifies
a man. He hates it. His
male image still wants to
be the protector and wear
the strong arm. It's instinc-
tive and will always be, in
spite of woman's changing
role.
You have to step down a
notch and make someone
else feel important, too.
It's attentiveness, praise,
encouragement and a few
unselfish questions that
will break down the barri-
er.
If you want to develop a
serious relationship, you
have to follow the course
of a wise fisherman: Move
cautiously, keep quiet and
use attentive and sympa-
thetic bait.
And, until the smart
girls learn this simple
truth, the modest, admir-
ing little girls will continue
to catch the husbands.
The cost of installing water
lines in rural areas is more
expensive because there
may be one household every
half mile, as compared to
one every 50 feet in the city,
he says. In rural areas, there
is also a wider range of de-
mands for water. For
example, a rural church
may use water during Sun-
days and evenings only while
a livestock operation in the
same area may need water
for 1,000 head of cattle.
MOZART. By Wolfgang 110-
desheimer. Translated from
the German by Marion Fa-
ber. Farrer Straus Giroux,
New York. (In Canada:
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, To-
ronto. 326.95.) 416 pp.
Reviewed by
PERCY MADDU?f
The famous composer Mo-
zart was born in 1756 in
Australia and died in 1791 at
the early age of 35. He was
married to Constanze
Weber. His father was Leo-
pold and he was Wolfgang.
He was a child prodigy, play-
ing the piano, and went on
concerts with his older sister
Maria Anna, called Nannerl.
His fame, however, rests on
his musical compositions.
In 1956 Wolfgang Hildes-
heimer delivered a lecture
on Mozart which was after-
wards expanded to book
length. Translated into Eng-
lish by Marion Faber, it pre-
sents to us many facets of
Mozart's life and work. It is
not a biography, although it
contains much biographical,
material, but rather a dis-
cussion based on the as-
sumption that the reader al-
ready knows all about Mo-
zart's life. It is lucid writing
and although not divided into
chapters splits itself up into
sections separated from one
another by spaces. There are
also numerous photographs
in this volume.
How can people sleep?
Denmark's oldest town,
Ribe, was founded in 948 on
the west coast of Jutland. It
maintains the old tradition
of night watchmen who pa-
trol the streets and sing spe-
cial songs each time the
clock strikes the hour.
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