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C10 - Wednesday, August 4, 1982 - North Shore News

Calm seas, nice trip

One request that I can’t
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columns, It would be great if
i had the facilities to provide
ap instant reprint and the
orgamization to make it all
possible. You may get lucky
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More reader’s questions:
Dear Barhara:

I know you've covered this
ground before but it was
before I needed the advice in
black and white to show my
wife. We've got two kids,
two and three years. Come:
fall, we're going to England
to visit my family who have
never met my wife and have
never seen the kids. My wife
says that we should take
them with us. I am trying to
te her that my parents
aren't kid-oriented. All of us
attended boarding school
and my parents breathed a
sigh of relief when we left.
Their house is full of antique
china and delicate furniture.

In addition to an aversion
to small children, my parents
haven't ever been out of
Britain. They would have a
fit if they saw the way our
kids eat, play around and
crack each other over the
head with toys.

It's going to be hard
enough for my parents to
cope with a Canadian
daughter-in-law withoiut two
rambunctious kids.

Also, can you try to ex-
plain the way people in
Britain dress for dinner, and
generally behave them-
selves. I have tried to explain
to my wife but she says,
“Take me like I am, or don’t
take me at all.”

ANSWER:

My first impulse was to
advise your wife to go the
“don’t” route. Don't go,
don't take the kids and don’t
bother with all the nit-
picking that she’s quite likely
to encounter.

I've met people like you
describe (your parents) and
they give me a gigantic pain
approximately where I sit.

And, I don’t think much of
your approach, either.

You've though enough of
the gal to marry her, set up
housekeeping and have two
kids Granted, the cir-
cumstances in Britain are
different than in Canada
But, not all that different.
Have you asked your parents
about bringing the grand-
children? They may _ be
looking forward to having
them and might have already
made arrangements for the
care and feeding of same

If Tf were your wife
deliver me! I'd prefer not to
take the hads. She'll probably
have cnough on her plate

just dealing with your

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My message to her is to
conform. Take along a
couple of pretty dresses -
and I] hope they cost you a

trayel-
wise

by Barbara
McCreadie

bundle - take pictures of the
kids, grit her teeth and bear
the whole thing. If she cares
for you, she'll make the
supreme sacrifice. Mean-
while, I hope you don’t stay
too long with your family but
take a week or so off to see
the country.

I'm glad for her sake that
your nifty family isn't living
two miles away from you,
right here in Canada. Unless
you are selling your parents
as short as you're selling
your wife.

Dear Barbara:
This is a thank-you letter.
I don't write too many of

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can wear behind your ear.
As a former Navy man, I'd
bribed, pleased and prayed
for my wife to agree to a
cruise. No way! She vowed
that she got sick just wat-
ching Love Boat and knew
that she would rather die
than try a cruise.

We read your column a
few months ago and your
adivce to try the patches on
a short boat trip made sense
but instead of trying B.C.
Ferries, we arranged a day
trip with some friends who
own a pleasure boat. We hit
some chop and a lot of swells
and my wife felt great.
Maybe it was the patches.

We've booked your cruise
through the Panama! She
feels that she can handle it
and is looking forward to it.

Now, can you get her to
cut her baggage down from
three suitcases to two?

Answer:
Since Fm never sea-sick, I
can’t say I’ve tried the

patches and they work. But,
everyone I talked to with
tiny bandaids behind their
ears seemed to be bearing
up. Mind you, we hit very
little chop and that may
change in a Force-10 gale.
May you have calm seas
and a pleasant voyage. Since
small boats give me_ the
willies - it’s not the sea that
worries me, it’s the dopes
who drive the things, it tries
my stomach to its max. to
hop around B.C. coastal
waters in a small craft.
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