Bob Hunter is wpe SURELY THERE must be @ strictly personal ® aterm somewhere in medical or at Icast psychological literature for what | call Family i Holiday Shock Syndrome. As you might suspect, { just got back from a vacation with my wife, two small kids and oldest’ daughter. We went to Oahu, rented an apartment with a kitchenette in Waikiki, and set- tled in for our own personal fam- ilv. sit/com. The first night the fold-out bed ia the livingroom cotlapsed under boldest daughter. It took three days to get it fixed. As 1 was washing the dishes after breakfast one morning and hesitating over what could or } could not go into the garburetor, my wife casually jammed several chunks of left-over pineapple down into the thing to show me how it’s done. The machine immediately gurgled a death-cry and vomited everything back up. We sheep- ishly called the desk, then slinked off to the beach. Returning late that afternoon, we found a Ha- waiian family camped in the kitchenette, working on the gar- buretor. . By 10 that night, they still hadn’t got it fixed. By 10 the next night, ditto. It. was. kind of - interesting, sharing our apartment with this Hawaiian family, but after three days, when’ the garburetor still wasn't working, but at least wasn’t backing up, we all tacitly agreed to leave things be, even if _it meant the sink was henceforth always a trifle skummy. ; | We'd got a bit Hawaiian ‘ourselves by that time, you see. Hang loose. Life’s a beach. The sunburns were fabulous, especially my son’s. His boiled cheeks got so puffed up we thought maybe he’d been bitten by a cockroach in his sleep, but nope, just good old flaming solar radiation overdose. As the skin began to crack, we nicknamed him Lizard Boy. : Heading east from Honolulu in the rented car to circumnavigate the island, we took a wrong turn’ after an hour: or so, zipped through a tunnel, and found ourselves approaching a city that. looked awfully familiar. How about that? Honolulu! : You wouldn't think you could get lost on an island as small as ‘Oahu, but as it turns out, you cart. Easily, We did it at least a half dozen times. The navigator and the driver were known to have exchanged words that couldn't be printed in a family ‘POT SHOTS’ IN Worth Van mayor scolds newspaper, Iet alone a Canily holiday. We stopped at one beach where cight to 10-foot waves were breaking so that old macho Dad could try his luck, and, of course, Mom, rather macha herself, couldn’t resist having a fling at the surf, except that she got royally splatted on the beach and limped back to the car bleeding from major scrapes along the rump. Out snorkelling one afternoon, Dad managed to gouge both knobby knees on coral as well as neatly ripping his fingers and toes. Renting some boogey-boards and flippers, Dad also led a brave expedition out into the surf at Waikiki which resulted in the boy catching one marvellous wave and sweeping grandly and ecstatically into shore, only to smash into his big sister’s head, nearly knocking her out. Ah, fun! The baby succeeded in locking herself in the bathroom one morning. The door turned out to ’ be the type that only locks from the inside. No key or screws or bolts on the outside at all. Dad hesitated before breaking down the door because, after all, we had already wrecked the fold-out bed and the garburetor, but was on the verge of giving in to’ panic and smashing things ‘when the kid figured out how to unlock the door herself, which is pretty cool for a two-year-old, I gotta admit, and saved us further embarrassment with the front desk. As two-year-olds will, the baby provided us with yet another moment of high drama as we roared up onto the freeway. The rental car lacked a fifth seatbelt and the spirited little wench had struggled up to a standing posi- tion in the back for a moment. Just then, Dad had to slam on the brakes to avoid being cream- ed by a truck and the baby came flying forward between the front seats and smashed into the dashboard. Amazingly, there were no serious injuries. Except, of course, that the stress levels shot up all around. As we crawled back to the air- port —- burned, bruised, scraped and exhausted — we were all wearily grinning from ear to ear. What a fab time! Just what the doctor ordered. DEBATE aiderman for comments NORTH VANCOUVER City Ald. Dana Taylor received a mayoral scolding Monday after he charged some aldermen were ‘‘taking pot shots”’ at a city-paid consultant. During debate on _ including development consultant Frank Morris on a new staff committee, Taylor said opposition voiced by some aldermen was ‘‘sour grapes.”’ But Mayor Jack Loucks inter- jected io halt Taylor’s comments. “We're trying to make sure people don’t comment on the actions of - others,’’ Loucks told him. Ald. Stella Jo Dean and Ald. move to have Morris serve on the staff committee, both objected strongly to the remarks by Taylor. And Hall was not pleased with the mayor for allowing such talk to continue. **You seem to let (Taylor) say anything he wants,” Hall said to the mayor. “‘There are those who abuse their speaking privileges as well,’” Loucks told Hall. ‘If resent your comment, but I guess you’re en- titled to your opinion.” A 3-2 vote of five council members present struck Morris & | 50% off WCE VIRGINIA TUPPER of North Vancouver, a Warkers’ Compensation Board employee, is among 1,000 WCB employees being lung-function tested by UBC's Occupational Diseases Research Unit. Test results will act as contra! data for comparison with test results from 2,000 Alcan aluminium smelter workers. Some of the Alcan employees work in environments where dust aud fumes may decrease hang function. The 1986 Alcan study follows up a 1979 study that ‘showed some workers with slightly iower lung fune- om worker gets lung test tion than expected. 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