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Show Cesft lei wae! " " Out with the old notes, "?S and in with the new Summer is drawing to a close (bite your tongue) and .it's time to get ready for fall. To a column writer, that means it's time to throw out all those little notes being saved, , to some day write a column about, q Unfortunately, most of the little , notes just sit in sloppy little piles -because there isn't enough interest in that precious little idea to create a whole column. So, I'm going to clean out the desk and toss out a lot of things that were worth writing a note about, but not a column about The most recently added note reads, "Goofed." I need to , apologize for a column in which I gave Thomas A. Edison credit for inventing the telephone. Nowyou can see what I'm writing about I was embarrassed that I gave credit for this magnificent machine to Edison instead of the great inventor Alexander G. Bell. However, all of my apologies could not keep a . reader's interest for a full column. Next, I'm throwing out my note that says, "Why do I feel so guilty eating , at fast-food restaurants all . the time?" In this day and age, I am probably not the only closet fast-food fast-food addict in town. The day I wrote this note, I had gone into the local McDonald's, and they had begun to fix my son's plain cheeseburger as we pulled into the parking lot I was mortified to be known that well at such a place, but you can see where tny guilt would not be an entertaining subject for a whole column. ; . . , The note that is hard to throw away is the one about motor-cycles. I live in fear of the backlash that such a column would create. I have all kinds of opinions on this subject, none of them very nice, but just in "0 mentioning them at a few parties, the reaction has been so violent that I am chickening out, and throwing ouyhenote. One note has been here for so long that it is turning brown around the edges. (Either that or I have left another Snickers in my desk too long.) This note reads "Column on equal rights for women." Now J know I am asking for trouble with this subject, but more importantly, I think readers are sick to death of -reading about it. What I really need to do is write a column on equal rights ':fbr1itiinaii'i)eihgs,'ihalei0if female. I think I'll just jot that down and save the idea and see what de-velops. de-velops. '--, How about my note that says "How come nobody else ever seems to do ironing?" I cannot understand why my son's tee-shirts come out of the dryer looking like crepe paper. There is no way he could . put one on with all the -wrinkles and even pretend that he looks decent. Yet, I hear moms all the time say, "Oh, I just buy tee shirts and that way I ddnt have to iron." Although this isn't a suoject that would keep a reader's interest through an entire column, it really bugs me and I'd like to know why our tee-shirts need to be ironed. I'll go ahead and throw the note out though because I feel a little better just having asked the question. It really does feel good to throw! Tall the old stuff out It's kindof like- -the good feeling of finally going" through the sock drawer at home r and getting rid of all the jingle; holey socks, Unfortunately, there is kind of a sad, empty look to my desk drawer. I think I'll go get soma ' Snickers to fill it up, and me up.nd think about that people's liberation thing. !3 " ' |