Show BEES WAXING By Mary Bee DID YOU EVER have one of those weeks when everything seemed to go wrong I dont don't mean any real serious calamities calamities calamities calam calam- just an unusually large number of minor disasters You start out early Monday morning by find finding i n g a fresh snow-fall snow enough to slow traffic traffic traffic fic and worry you if you happen to be a worrisome driver Then you discover an important import import- ant letter which should have been in inthe the mail Saturday at the latest buried under a pile of newspapers YOU KNOW youve you've started this week all wrong The snow keeps falling and andone andone andone one of the kids cries all night with an ear For the third week in a row its it's back to the doctor and out of school same sam e kids d different i ff ere n t ill illness illness illness ill ill- ness Gremlins maybe By this time your morale is sinking lower and lower in indirect indirect indirect direct proportion to the increasing increasing in increasing in- in creasing depth of the snow Ill I'll call this Bees Law Re Remember Remember Re- Re member it it may become one of the great discoveries s of the year You get stuck in a snowdrift snowdrift snow drift and have to be pulled out the ear-ache ear subsides only to find another child complaining of a headache Always a warning warning warning warn warn- ing of so something met hi n g worse to come THE OLD CAR which has been starting faithfully every morning without t fail decides this is the time After being pulled all over town it finally coughs to life again but the cylinder trouble which was diagnosed some months ago as ast t terminal e r m i n aI has an u urgent r g e n t CI slurp s I u r s p-s 1 u r p so sound u n d andt and t threatens h rea ten s its demise soon Regular injections of have kept this old Chevy running long past its it's predicted death date but now the end seems to be near The snow keeps getting deeper deep deep- er the icicles thicker and the cold colder I refuse to watch the weather n report port any more A water pipe bursts and the turn-off turn valve is buried somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where beneath a couple of feet of snow With water squirting all allover over you struggle in the snow for the valve THE MAIL is full of bills the urgent kind and your son sonis sonis sonis is very disturbed because you didn't tell him the Little League Basketball has already started and he probably wont won't be allowed al allowed allowed al- al lowed to play because he already m missed i d too many games and what kind of moUi mother r are you anyway that you let this happen I didn't know no one told me I 1 rip a hole in my snow- snow boots and discover not a one of my favorite stores has a pair to fit me Much can be said about the beauty of small f feet et but fitting them can sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times be a problem Those of yo you with big feet can at least buy a couple of wading pools on sale or tie knots in some inner tubes when boots arent aren't available I have to settle for little boys boy's buckle 4 overshoes or a couple of bread bags Then when you figure your luck has to change the furnace goes out Bringing it back to life entails squeezing through a knothole in the floor and crawling crawling crawling crawl crawl- ing through a space designed for mid midgets get s and 0 occupied c cup i e d by spiders You must know what screw to tighten and what wire to wiggle among a vast array of screws and wires The most likely candidate for this job is me SO I TOLD YOU I had a bad week As a final capper Bobs Bob's new dog got run over Big dogs go darting across the highway continually continually continually con con- watching for traffic t tr or r daring it to strike Little pups who will wander in spite of car careful e f u 1 watching clomp through life just like little children children children child child- ren expecting the world to watch out for them But trucks and cars dont don't watch out for kids and dogs After the tears have been cried and dried dried- dried after ter the c collar has been put lovingly away with keepsakes from other pets the pets the memories will be brought out outto to air Soon he will chuckle about this little creature with the long nose and the floppy ears ear who wriggled its way into his heart in such a short time Of course we have promised him another Snoopy just as soon as a 1 likely i k e 1 y candidate can be found For pets placed and broken hearts mended mended mend mend- ed as a little boy strives to become be become become be- be come a man and accept the bad breaks But if you saw me last week and I did didn't n t seem quite quit e my usually c cheerful h e e r f u 1 self re remember remember remember re- re member I had a bad week EVERY ONE HAS Bad weeks So when you have yours give me a call I have a full box of super super sized s iz e d tissues and a friendly but boney honey shoulder of sympathy And maybe just maybe we can find some h hum humor u m o 0 r in the situation somewhere Theres There's one big advantage to having haling a bad week now and then it sure makes you appreciate appreciate appreciate ap ap- ap- ap the goo good d ones in Bee Mary between |