Show j 1 s Bees WAXING by Mary Bee WITH THE COLLEGES out for the s summer u m in e r and warm weather the highways seem to tobe tobe tobe be filling up with hitch-hiking hitch hippies Every one has a favorite story about the unusual antics or garb of these characters But did you hear about the theman theman theman man who saw the two hippies coming down the road towards him One had a feminine curve to its hips and shoulder-length shoulder bonde hair a pretty girl like that doing out on the road road road- our friend thought and slowed down downa a bit for a better look AS HE GOT CLOSER CLOSE R he noticed she had a pretty face to togo togo togo go with the neat hips then hips then he REALLY slowed down when he saw what she was wearing Instead of the usual baggy sweat-shirt sweat or army fatigue jacket she was wear ing a fring fringed ed leather vest open down the front with nothing under it By this time our friend was seriously considering breaking the rule about picking up hitchhikers hitchhikers hitchhikers hitch hitch- hikers and slowed almost to a astop stop i t But coming alongside the two hippies he saw to his dismay that the beautiful girl was in fact a boy He didn't stop WITH ALL THIS hot weather my kids kid's favorite is in the ditch in inner- inner tubes They looked so cool I asked if I could join them They all laughed at me When I finally pressed them for a logical reason why I couldn't float down the ditch in an inner tube they said it was because I didn't have an inner Well that problem would soon be resolved I decided Surely in the corner of our garage garage garage gar gar- age reserved for piles of junk junkI I could find another inner Sure enough after moving two down broken-down mowers lawn-mowers a tub with a hole in it three sleds a pile of lumber and a busted bicycle frame I found an inner Okay kids just as soon as I get my tube inner-tube pumped up Ill I'll join you you They laughed They giggled They pointed They guffawed even When they told me that no one-NO one ONE ever floats down the ditch on a twenty-inch twenty t a-t It bicycle tube Oh well maybe I can find a tractor tube that should hold Mary Bee |