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Show LOTS OF BUYERS LIKE THAT 7 . , Man's Complaint That He Never Gets Quite What He Wants Is a Pretty General One. "I never buy what I want!" ex plained Trazzler to his friend, Ebsan. "Every time I buy anything, no matter mat-ter what, 1 hardly get home before 1 think of something else that I need worse and that I could have bought with the 6ame or less money. Sometimes Some-times I can figure out three or four things I really need that the same money would have bought. "There is the library table that I have needed so long. The time for it never comes yet I paid $18 for photographs pho-tographs the other day. I could have bought the library table for that money. I could have paid the laundry hill with that $18." - "There is trutn m what you say, murmured Ebsan sadly. "I went without a phone in my house for eight years and spent the money I could have used to pay phone rent in making monthly payments on an encyclopedia! en-cyclopedia! Can you beat that? "Many a time I hurried over to the ! neighbor's phone in my bathrobe I and slippers when I could have had a j phone right in my own bathroom, I and so could have gone along with I my ablutions while the boss com-1 com-1 plained over the phone about my 'latest blunder." "In your bathroom!" "Sure. I never took a bath in my life without some one calling me on some urgent matter. So my phone is in my bathroom now. I stopped payments pay-ments on the encyclopedia and had a phone put in. "But it has turned out now that I need the encyclopedia worse than I do the phone. That's the way it always al-ways is. Every time I go . to take a bath now some neighbor is stricken with paralysis or some other calamity and the family has to use my phone instantly. So I have to don my dressing dress-ing gown and duck into my room while the family's representative tells doctors, doc-tors, nurses and relatives about It" "Even so, why do you need the' encyclopedia?" en-cyclopedia?" "J((f up the bookcase that Uncle Hubottle gave me for Christmas." |