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Show I I t Sun AdvocsEei 4 Tuesday May 7, 2002 Stall editorial Getting through in this electronic age through to my mom. I thought it was . tially less the day, before the big holibecause my mother lived in a very day and mother will be just as happy. If you can't call Saturday try and rural area in southern Canada and there weren't enough lines to carry call early Sunday. The earlier the betthe added volume. I tried with great ter. What a nice surprise mother By KEN LARSON Sun Advocate publisher Mother's Day is this Sunday and it's an important day, one that families have for generations created family gatherings and family traditions around. But with many families when mother is not living close or in the same community, the telephone has become the tool to reach out and effort to Connect with her late into evening and each time I got a ' the busy signal. Of course things have changed over that time and many more lines and upgraded systems help to make touch mom and wish her the best More calls are made bn this day than' any other day of the year, including the winter holidays. I remember the frustration a few years ago when I message will go away and you should be able to connect your call. Just a reminder for those of you who may be calling overseas or internationally, dial: "11 - country if her and have catch code, city code, and number. Interyou early may national operators can be reached wish her the best day ever. The peak times are between 3 ' by dialing "00. If you do not know couldn't get and 8 p.m. Avoid these times because this is the period with the high- the county or city codes for the area you are trying to get through to you can go to a website, called est volumes. quicker and faster connections even in the rural areas. But to avoid disappointments I have listed a few tips; to remember when trying to get through to mom. If you get a message saying, "all circuits are busy," just be patient and call again in a few minutes. The " message happens when all of the telephone facilities into or out of a www.countrycallingcodes.coih. This site provides a majority of the If possible call on Saturday. The volume Saturday will be substan specific location are tied up. As other else you are calling on this upcoming happy holiday. codes currently in use. Happy Mothers Day and good luck getting through to your mom people complete their calls, the Staff caiman Why do things seem so complicated? By three hands that were the size of a three year olds and had vision to sec through the dashboard as well. People often say the most complicated things arent machines, but human beings. Well heck, if you think about it that must be the reason things like that brake light switch are so hard to work on. You know. The day Jhe guy who designed that thing put it on the drawing board his wife and he must have had an argument or his kid wrecked his car. I le just wanted to get back at me because of his frustration. But for me some of the most complicated items in life are the things that should be really the most simple. Example: toilet paper dispensers. Now how complicated can that be? Well when considering the state of mind most of us are in When we have to use them they should be the built at the height of simplicity. Yet they are not; they are designed to keep you from using too much toilet paper; wasting a precious resource that someone else may need, except forthe fact that they wont be able to get it off the roll either. I was down at the San Rafael Swell on Sunday. A new RICHARD SHAW Stuff reporter Have you ever noticed that some people try to make everything more complicated than it needs to he. I mean it's an old thought, one almost all of us have had about someone or some- thing. And all of us have our pet peeves about it. Some of us hate doing our taxes, because we all think there must he an easier way than filling out two extra forms just because you want a deduction for your dogs appendec-- . tomy. Or what about getting another social security card. I lost mine and called the social security office and they told me they would send me a form to fill out. The form" was multiple pages long and they told me it would be six weeks before I would get the card. Id bettcr.hang onto my job. Just think if I was out of work and didnt have that card; no one would hire me because without it no one dares give you a job. Nowadays you could probably not even pass through the bread line without a social security card: The other day I was trying to put a brakelight switch in my 35 year old Mustang. People will always tell you how old cars ate so much easier to work on than new ones. In some ways that Ls true, but in many ways it is not. It took me a whole day to install it and by the time I was done I had scratches and bruises all over my ' arms and hands, had broken two new switches (one was by dent the other wasnt as it was. hurled against the garage wall) and I had bumped my head on ' - the kind of tissue that drops down through a set of teeth that cut it off. These ma- paper and the dispenser. The rolls had been placed on a flat bar as wide as the cardboard chines were probably invented to be put in the restrooms where they held the inquisition. They work pretty well but I almost always rip part of my hand off on the cutters. All of these devices make you really think about sanitation. If you have to grapple and fight and claw and wrestle with these devices, and everyone else has to do the same thing, what bacteria lies Then.there roller. Therefore the rolls used it to measure the most minute of tolerances in a racing There are only two ways to deal With this situation. Either you peel off the thin paper and pusn your hand behind and unroll a sheet at a time or you bring your own. Of course by the time I discovered this torturous device, it was too late to bring my own. But this isnt the only kind of dispenser that makes me crazy. They almost all do. What about the type that when you pull on the roll it winds so freely that a thousand feet of thin, cheap tissue ends up as a pile on the fldbh These are true perpetual motion machines, something we ought to explore as a new energy source. Then there are the double roll dispensers; you know the kind you find in schools and service stations. As you attempt to roll the lower roll to get some tissue, off; the upper roll travels in the on the surfaces of these TURN IN A PUSHER, The information gathered as a result of the following TIPS form is strictly confidential and will not be divulged to any; one outside of the Carbon Metro Drug Task Force. The law enforcement officials will evaluate the information and place the facts into a composite file. Action will be taken on Nickname: ma- Description: Hi Age WL Hair . 1 Sex SS Eyes I Address: I - Home: :! ll of-th- e ' common spring loaded paper dispenser. A little like the old pole lamps of the sixties with their spring loaded bars, these usually provide a free wheeling roll of toilet paper. Unfortunately the' springs also get weak and if you yank on them too hard, or sometimes not even very hard at all the spring loaded device and the roll come flying off and inevitably do one of two things; (1) the toilet paper roll shoots across the room and lands on the floor ing through the water the persori before you splashed in front of the basin, or (2) the roll drops into the toilet . It is a mortifying experience to see a whole roll of toilet paper floating there, with you knowing it must come out of that white porcelain bowl before you flush. And often, it is the last roll left too, adding injury to insult Complication seems to be. a way of life with us. Maybe we should just go bade to using Sears Catalogues. ; Name of suspected drug dealer chines? Only the shadow knows. But my most favorite of-atoilet paper dispensers is the opposite direction and' then : DRUGS is . engine. drops down in the machine locking up both rolls so you find yourself clawing at the tissue, trying to make a handful little pieces of thin fiber you manage to hack off. Then there is the giant rolls and dispensers. The paper is still thin, but the rolls are three feet across and must weigh 25 pounds each. Of course the paper rips af s mean. scheme, to see peoples frustrations. In this case it, was both the wouldn't turn. The paper on the rolls was so thin that I could have . the steering wheel, column enough that I will probably suffer an aneurism tomorrow. What ever idiot designed that particular device in 1967 must have had perverted Candid Camera restroom area has been con- -' structed near the Wedge Overlook. It is clean and neat and for a pit loilct it smells pretty gOod. For a change I quite enjoyed being in that little eight by eight cubicle; that was until I tried to get some tissue off the roll It was set up to hold six rolls, a testament to how long it is between visits by maintenance personnel. The top thre; rolls were empty, so I had to resort to the bottom rolls. I am never sure in this type of situation whether the problem lays in the dispenser or the toilet paper. I think the companies that ter each sheet because of the great weight it has to pull, so you five minutes just to get enough to.well you know what I build the two conspire to make it tough to use their products. 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