Zurich Citizens News, 1970-07-30, Page 4R=AGE FOUR
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
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OPEN
By Bill Smiley
This is going to be one of the
most difficult columns I've ever
written. Don't worry, there
hasn't been a death in the family
or anything like that, although I
did offer my wife a divorce on
Sunday morning and it was a
solid deal for five minutes. No,
this is purely physical.
When you play with fire,
you're likely to get burnt. I did
and I was. Trouble is, it's the
two typing fingers on my right
hand. Each has a blister the size
of a dime, and a quarter -inch
deep, right on the tip. So I'm
trying to type this with my
knuckles, and it's heavy weather.
Not that I'm merely a one -
handed typist. I use my left
hand with incredible dexterity,
forefinger , for hitting keys,
thumb for hitting the space -bar.
Well, soon after burning the
right-hand fingers, 1 tripped over
a rock, shoved out my left hand
to save myself, and sprained my
thumb. It looks like a puff -adder
with a toothache and feels
similar.
However, when I think of my
neighbor, my troubles, while
painful, are trivial. On the eve of
his summer holidays, he racked
up some discs in his neck. He is
in hospital, in great pain, and in
a huge neck -collar.
My wife has a pain too, and
it's also in her neck, She's sick of
running a motel, of changing
beds for transient visitors, of
doing great loads of laundry.
Kim will arrive home with big
green garbage bags so stuffed
with laundry that they look like
pregnant whales. Hugh does the
same. And they invariably bring
friends.
The whole mob has the same
characteristic. They tromp
around in their bare feet. They
go to the beach, track in about a
pound of sand per foot. You
almost need a shovel and a
sand -pail when you're changing
the sheets. I tell my wife she's
crazy, that they probably never
get to sleep on clean sheets
except at home. One can infer
that from the state of the
laundry. But she's of the old
school, which believes that even
'bums should have clean sheets.
My advice to her has all the
effect of writing on water with
chalk.
The idea is that Kim will do
the laundry. But she's working
at a job where she must be up at
5 a.m. to be at work by 7. So when
she's home for a day, she sleeps
until about 3 p.m. And Momma,
knowing she's a sucker, does the
laundry, muttering steadily.
There is a point at which you
think you can see your kids
looking after themselves.
They're going to be out of your
hair, independent. No more
handouts. No more paying of
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bills. No more looking after their
documents and the countless
forms to be filled out, But that
point recedes steadily into the
distance as you plod steadily
toward it.
I was warned about this by a
friend, some years ago. He had
three grown sons, all doing well,
all married, all with children. I
congratulated him on his fine
family and the fact that they
were on their own. He laughed
bitterly.
"They're on their own," he
snorted, "when they've all bor-
rowed enough from you for a
down payment on a house, at
two per cent interest. And even
then, unless they're in Zanzibar,
they're home every second
weekend, expecting to be wined
and dined and baby-sat."
And he was dead right. The
only solution I can see is for
parents of grown-up "children"
to sell the family home, with its
three or four bedrooms, and
move into a one bedroom
apartment, preferably in some
place as handy to get at as
Aklavik.
I don't blame the kids much.
Our two are both working in the
hot, stinky city, at fairly menial
jobs, and living in pretty squalid
rooms, because that's all they
can afford. We live in a lovely
summer area, with beaches,
clean air, a big, shady lot, and a
built-in cook — their mom. They
still think of it as home.
Clean sheets, real meat in-
stead of rice and macaroni,
showers galore, a doting mother
to pick up after them, and a real
mark of a father, who is always
good for a small "loan". What
more could they want?
And I must admit, against my
will, that we're pretty glad to see
the red -head with the big brown
eyes, or the young man with the
trim beard, and hear, "Hi, Mom.
Hi, Dad."
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1970
Music Results of
Local t'eac'her
Pupils of Mrs. Dorothy Stade
have received their music results
from the Royal Conservatory of
Music of Toronto. Grade II
Theory, John Blackwell, First
Class Honors; Grade VIII piano,
Elaine Westlake, Pass; Grade VI
piano, Mrs, Phyllis Deichert,
Honors. (Mrs. Deichert tried this
in January); Debra Gingerich,
Honors; John Blackwell, Honors.
Grade V piano, Elizabeth Reich-
ert, Pass.
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