| Show Let Us Have Any Fun Fun sty 1 FLORENCE BITTNER to feel leel indispensable a 1 a week as mother to toof toof of ol children recently from school c l. l Life Lifes led disjointed trek in a ess esses es s crisis crisis to crisis 1 k E EM I MOM MOD Can you the window and be e to cb 7 l J ot now Jon Ive I've got goth gotA h A t the wax on this floor t I If LL hur hurry Ill I'll be made it to the lawn I t I g last swing I bet WarI War- War fit r fitt could hit the barbecue barbecued t I i d next time t 4 Hie Le e screen door slams and ande fae the e minute it takes my myrs a. a r rs s to mesh I heard a and a cheer The next was agonized wail From IT 1 k OWN T Tarzan arzan I Y You ou will willise lawn furniture for lor fort g use ise e my 4 t practice He descended ithe the rope swing dejected l Use fuse use mom hadn't admired to land on a lawn l r As we righted and uns un- un assorted aluminum s furni- furni q 4 fil sI I repeated my oft said r regarding care and andIng anding 1 ing of ol family property Vou ou NEVER let us have ve fun The circle of ol deboys dem deboys de- de m ed edher boys glared at mean f her er mounted bicycles and andt t awa away to conquer new yards i 1 1 ACE descended like a et and I finished wax- wax ing the floor before the phone rang Wheres Warren Were We're waiting for him WHAT FOR Hes supposed to help deliver circulars Weve We've been waiting ten minutes All right Ill I'll find him and get him right over there Promises promises But where was Warren and wh why hadn't he bothered to tell me he had an important assignment SIX PHONE calls later I knew four places where the commandoes had been and andone andone andone one place where they hadn't yet arrived All the neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood knew Warren was wanted and on the seventh phone call he was found instructed and he departed supposedly to keep his appointment The floor polisher whined bright streaks across the linoleum linoleum linoleum lin lin- oleum and on the sixth pass across the floor the back door banged open MOM 1 IM I'M hungry WHAT I turned off oll the polisher resigned to less than perfection on my floors IM 11 HUNGRY You never feed me Jonathan accused me out of hollow eyes Two hot dogs two glasses of milk a doughnut and an orange arent aren't food YEAH BUT that was HOURS ago Im I'm starved Food starved or snacK starved WELL HOW about both Im I'm really starved You suggest and Ill I'll veto CAN I have a doughnut All gone WELL HOW about a pop- pop Also all eone bone SEE you NEVER feed me How about a glass of root beer I guess theres there's a glass left if you squeeze the bottle NOURISHED he departed Departing he left behind him footprints on the shine of ol my linoleum imbedded in root beer Oh well Its It's nice to be needed |
