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Show ALL III symptoms point to winter By Mary Gae Evans Well, if you ask me, winter is really here I recognize all the signs. I've had the car stuck five times in the last week. I risk my neck every morning driving the kids to school when I, and numerous other sleepy-eyed mothers, meet there with windshields covered with frost except for a 3-inch peephole scraped on the driver's side. I've slipped clear down once and halfway down a dozen more times, and you know how that Is. You break your neck to get up before be-fore someone sees you. The broken bones can wait until later, rule number one is to get up and get out of there. Another sign that winter is here is the germ warfare we are exposed to every day. As near as I can figure we are now being bombarded by about 20 different kinds of cold and flu germs. There is the nagging cough type, or the kind when you lose all signs of a voice. Then there's the red, runny nose syndrome usually accompanied by a perpetual sneeze. Some flu symptoms are: the old favorite favor-ite when you throw up every three hours, or the one where you find yourself taking up permanent residence in the bathroom (just to mention a couple). This is the time cf year when doctors have ner-ous ner-ous breakdowns from overwork. over-work. If your doctor shows any signs the next time you see him, you know what to do. Tell him to take two aspirin and call you In the morning. Then, there's the fuel oil problem to brighten up the winter. I don't know about the oil company you deal with but we have to lay out a red car pet and offer free hot chocolate and doughnuts to get ours to bring us a delivery. Then we have to hock the family jewels to pay for it. Speaking of high pi Ices, I drove into a gas station yesterday yes-terday and asked for a dollar's worth of gas. The attendant got out an eye dropper to put It In the car with and Us too darn cold to walk. I hope It doesn't get to the point where I have to stay home and catch up on the housework. Ick, what I a revolting thought. There is, however, one group of people who make winter easier for all of us the city, county and state highway crews. They are the unsung heroes of this snowy mess and sometimes they get a lot of gripes and no thanks. So, I'd like to give them one. I think it's very comforting to hear the city crews out cleaHng the streets In the dark wnile most of us are still In our warm beds. It is nice to know that the state highway crewi are out all night when its snowing, snow-ing, cleaning the streets and highways and nelping strand-ed strand-ed motorists. Many farmers would be unable to reach their livestock during the winter months without the work of the county road crews. Well, enough of that, I'm going to brave the elements again with an attempt to get my car out of a snowbank ere-ated ere-ated in the line tf duty ty the nice people I was Just talking about. Mary Cm Evmi |