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Show If the Housewives Strike... we lose more than Groceries PAROWAN - How would you like to be an independent trucker right now. Not only getting robbed at the gas pumps but shot at on the way to them. I don't know if striking is the answer, if it is, maybe we should all join in. I guess some of the truckers are a little nervous. My husband was irrigating on a farm visible from the Freeway and reached in the pickup for his 22 rifle to try and shoot a skunk when he looked up to see a whole fleet of trucks slowing down and pulling to a stop on the Freeway. I guess they think anyone with a gun is a possible sniper. Needless to say he put the rifle back in the truck. Everyone it seems, can organize a strike if they are upset about something. I've been thinking maybe we housewives have been patient long enough. There are a few things we could strike about, and it might be kind of fun to have a couple of days off just to picket and shoot a few cap guns. We could strike for lower gas prices too, so we could afford to go to the stores to buy the groceries that the trucks can't afford to buy the gas to deliver. We could surround the stations and maybe throw a few of the overripe tomatoes we've been getting at each other, and the gas pumps. Or we could strike for lower meat prices and boycott hamburger for a week or so. Someone would have to figure out . one hundred and one ways to cook balogna, but we could survive it, and save enough to buy a couple of pork chops at the end of the boycott. We have a lot of causes we might strike against, panty hose and clothing manufacturers who put out misleading labels that proclaim that "One size fits all". Who do they think they are kidding ? All of what? They should go on to say fits all terribly underweight half starved females under five feet tall. Or we could strike against men who come home at night and ask "Where have you been all day" when you've scribbed and slaved all day and anyone with two eyes should be able to tell it. Or husbands who say "Honey, why don't you pack up the camper, get our clothes ready, dress and feed the kids, find us some worms for bait and we'll go fishing, but before you do, bring me a glass of water. I don't want to miss any of this TV program. We have lots of causes we would like a paid vacation, our work week cut from 105 hours to a mere 80. Kitchen pans that eggs won't stick to. We could whip up a heck of a strike against, the Teflon Co. I wish I had time to go on with this, but my kids are striking, unless I go right now and fix dinner, they are going to go picket at the Dairy Freeze. BY Mary Gae Evans |