Show if tit Bees WAXING by Mary Marr Bee THOSE OF YOU who gripe every two or three years about the expense of replacing your car battery better listen to Ab AbBO BO Boyer's Boyers tale of woe woe woe-he he had his battery replaced a couple of weeks ago and it cost him 1400 It wasn't his car battery it way was his own He has one of those new new pacemakers which is a powered battery-powered booster t that hat keeps his heart going rr IT LOOKS innocent enough enough- like a package of cigarettes sewn beneath his skin right over his heart Only Oily his battery replacement bi bit bill was 1400 He says there was another Bo Boor r in the same hospital at th same time and he thinks maybe they got the bills mixed up At least he hopes so at 1400 MOO a battery hes he's not sure it itS worth replacing WELL I FIN FINALLY ALL Y got my kitchen sink worries solved and Im I'm as happy as as a lark I just stand there running water down the sink and grinning I couldn't have been happier to 3 5 se e the plumber if hed he'd been i I ate d ballet w wearing E 3 r g gold p plated gold shit shoos S and a studded diamond-studded hat-band hat and came tippy tit ough my ny house flinging 50 bir bil bil's bils s with wild abandon Our plumbing plumbing- problems go goback goback goback back to the day we bought the v house when house when we found that many of the pipes were rusting and would have to be replaced WEVE WE'VE CALLED plumbers they took one look at the tiny hole they had to work in and refused to do it But finally they are all fixed up I just waited until the plumber plumb plumb- er had crawled under the house then boarded the hole up and re refused refused refused re- re fused to let him out til hed he'd fixed every leaky joint and re replaced replaced replaced re- re placed every rusted pipe Now next we have to figure out what to do about that kitchen floor- floor DO YOUR GIRLS often change their minds about what they will wear the last minute before the school bus arrives and make a quick and sometimes unknown change I noticed as my youngest ran out the door one day last week that shed she'd changed her dress No time to get her to change back and from the Im I'm not go going going going go- go ing to let them change my mind expression on her face I knew better than to try Only when she got home I noticed the dress she was wearing wearing wearing wear wear- ing had the hem hanging hanging all all the way around Linda what did you do to your dress The hem is outI out I DIDN'T DO IT IT- IT she re replied replied replied re- re plied truthfully It lt was that way when I put it on this morning morn- morn ing Sure enough that was one Id I'd let the hem out on before washing it so I could let it down It hadn't hemmed been hemmed re-hemmed yet How could she do this to me From now on dresses to be repaired will be hung in MY closet not on the back rod of hers hersI |