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; Page 74, May 9, 1979 - North Shore News

_ ‘Everyone else. collapsed
with laughter. Brian assured
“ame .that the beast was

“gone” and_J, like a fool,

' believed him. Still shaking, I
‘Shooed them all out of the
bathroom and carried on.

_ ‘Into the hot water. Lots of .

soap and shampoo. And
then—something —_ moved
under. the shower curtain! I
bent over, just to make sure.
Mygawd, it was chasing me!
Did you know that those
damn things can swim?

er is doomed

By this time, everyone had -
‘returned to

the ‘pool.
Scream? Did I! After the
fourth loud bellow, I knew I
was in this thing alone. Ever
heard of the ‘‘runnnin
broad’’ (jump)? Good thing
that camera was a distance
away or I'd have been
blackmailed for life.

After I found my other

glasses, I ‘did the beast in’’
with a broom. Pity it didn’t
understand. ~ a

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But, my next story has to

get full marks for a lady I

Theme

poet ene,

know. This is *‘super cool in
extreme — circumstances’’.
She's divorced and has a new

_>~boyfriend with enough bucks

to take her on the’ odd
week-end trip to San Fran-
cisco.

Since Monday morning
comes early,, they had a
lovely Sunday lunch’ .jn a
- classy restaurant and then
took a cab to the airport.
‘While in the restaurant, her
purse. sat, open, under her
seat. . -_

After the “‘No Smoking”

’ sign on the plane clicked off,

she’ picked up hér-purse and

_ looked inside for her cigar>

ettes. And there; wiggling
it’s little. feelers, sat the
great-prandaddy of all. cock-
roaches. She snapped the
purse shut while she grabbed
for the air-sick bag.

Then, instead of using the
bag for the most natural

purpose, she re-opened her
purse,

-bag and tied up the top.

When _ the © ‘stewardess
came by, she handed her the

chased down .the .
‘‘critter’’, scooped it into the _

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bag and ‘Said, “““Would”you. a
-please dispose,of this for me?

The stewardéss- looked a -

. little puzzled so my friend, dentist, ete. wot

whispered quietly, “‘It's a-
cockroach’’, The disposal
service was quite swift! .

Dear Mrs. McCreadie: Do
you have any information on
a Canadian colony in Mexico?

It-was written up in a

newspaper or magazine some .
time ago, describing the

beauty of the ‘idyllic little

paradise.

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__ The article‘claimed that a
group _of ,.Canadians” had

. settled there-and that they

had their own: doctors® and

Answer: Haven't. a.clue!
Called the Mexican Consul—
to no avail—they. hadn’t a
clue either. I accept.:these
articles with a huge ‘grain of ©
salt—simply because a lot of
unstrcupulous writers . can
make a_ hippie . commune
sound like. ‘‘next door to
paradise’’. «

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