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A change of place and attitude

THE VINTAGE YEARS

_ MOVING — THE only _
- good thing you can say.
about it is that it’s a great

“way to shed some more of -

*Jife’s clutter... .

The trouble with that little
“homily, though, is that it doesn’t
define “clutter.” _:. :-.

“- Your idea of ahutter i is “way “off

the mark someone else has struck

_ as her idea of minimum posses-

"sions necessary for happiness.

- Which one among us ripe old

; “bystanders i is ready to declare flat
‘out that we’ve finally outgrown

‘ all those festaments to youth?

‘The books you’re not going to”

"read again, ‘The photos of people
you can’t name: The fancy serv-

ing plates and.compotes you sim-'

ply don’t use any, more. The hats
and gloves?..: :

What do they represent to us ‘

hat we keep lugging them back
nd forth?"

This’ move, the 17ih during |
hese 52 years of our rambling
hrough life together, didn’t even
need a truck. It simply required

hat everything up there be gath- .

-, ered together, stuffed into the ele-
'«-vator and deposited down here.
No sweat. Piece of cake.'-.

- Sol called North Shore Move-

~All got this’ young man, alerted »
“him to my upcoming need, and.
-was delighted to get his assurance

that when I was ready, his’ hench- ;

“men would be ready too. (It’s
- possible that because his uncle
“was my, first beau, miles and
- miles and years and years ago, .
that he was : prepared to make :
“ such:a rash promise.) .. us
“But we discovered this tink

: ing indicated she ex

only after exchanging names. It
was fn no way the original design.
Life’s funny, isn’) it?

This chat took place around
the middle of the month of April,
and the young woman who first
had to depart these premises in
order for us to sei up housekeep-
xected to
leave some few days before the
month-end.

Just this single early shift out
of the building would then allow

_.us to move inte her place, new
people to move into our place.

And all of us with a little dignity
instead of frenzied exhaustion of

~theactual-month-end.~

Presently, the word came. We

“could plan for the 27th.

I promptly called Bob, the’

-_moving boss; and was pleased he *

could set it up for 8 o’clock on
that Wednesday morning.

We got it all boxed and bagged
and carefully Wrapped and man-

_aged to junk some and to pass

some into the care of younger and

more socially.active’‘people. And .:*
“we:got all the way to Tuesday — .
‘the day the current occupant said

she would absquatulate.
_ But to everyone’s amazement
and vexaticn, she had vanished.
No messages, no telephone
communication; n no moving trucks
at front or back. .
It boded ill... :
Should we call the police?

‘ Certainly ‘T.would have to cancel

my movers, and what the dickens

-would Ido? Bob had alreacy told . i

me that Thursday was taker. -
The morning Passed, anc it -

’ became clear that plans'mace
_ would be of little value. We must:

wait.
The rest of the day went down

“the drain, and I had no other

course than to tell Bob we were in

a bind, He said; “Keep in touch.

Pil look after ‘you, whatever hap-
pens.”
Well, inevitably, Wednesday
morning dawned and a couple of

“hours later so did the young
-woman. *.".° bea

“She'd bé doing some. other.

things, but was ready now to

move: She planned to call some?
one right away. .

My heart sank. Movers are. not
. taxi-cabs, But she did succeed i in.
nailing’ down a time for her depar- .
we ture — her truck would come. at
“five o’clock, We’re talking p.m.’

“NORTH. SHORE -

"INTERMEDIATE CARE SOCIETY.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

23 JUNE 4994 AT. ti 30 PM INTHE...
ACTIVITIES ROOM OF CEDARVIEW LoDcE

“The: North. Shore Intermediate Care
q Society. is holding its annual generai
|‘ meeting in the activities room of
Cedarview Lodge on 1 dune 23, 1994, at

7:30 p.m.

Cedarview Lodge is ; located at. 1200
- Cedarvillage Close, North Vancouver. -

: Al

welcome (although. voting is

“restricted to > Pale up members!)

Now what? [t ook a good deal
of nerve to call Bob at Move-All
and tell him the ghastly news.

His reply? “OK — lll send a
crew at seven.”

Which is how we came to be
climbing into bed at 10 o'clock
that night, with all our belongings
in piles around us. But they’d
done it.

There were only three of them,
Dave and Gord and Rob, and they
looked as though they were still
in their teens. They had long curly
hair and wore those universally
regrettable outfits of T-shirts and
baggy pants and a lot of us old
folks get uptight when we See
‘them on the streetsy ae

“Not like it was in my day,”
we sniff,

But they worked with each .
other steadily and without fric-
tion; smiled like angels, scooped

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me. They never raised their voic-
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some,

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dwelling-place, at our age.

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