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Minimizing holiday hassles

ANY DAY now I'm
going to turn into the
local version of ‘“‘Dear
Abby.” There’s more to
travel than buying an
airline ticket! If ever
our relationships with
friends and family are
stretched to the
breaking point’ the
crunch seems to come
at what should be our
happiest time - plan-

ning or enjoying a
holiday.
I get the damndest

questions! “I can't stand his
mother at the best of times.
How will I cope with five
weeks of her in England?”
or, “George wants to go
camping. I want to go to
Spain. I'd rather go to Spain
without George. What
should I do?” It’s hard not to
get cute with answers to that
kind of stuff. ,

I've saved some of the
more interesting “personal”
problems and I'll hit) you
with them all! at once.

Question: How can I tell
Mary that I won't travel with
her again? We've done five

trips together and I'm
frankly fed up. She's always
late, always dragging

behind, never pays her share
and usually complains about
everything. Worst, she
snores like a bulidozer and |
don't sleep at night.

Answer: Howinhell did you
stand her for trips two

by Barbara
McCreadie

Eee
through five after you'd

survived the first? Either
you're a masochist or your

backbone could = stand
relining.

Who pays your fare?
Right. How many people

buy trouble? Right again.

This kind of complaint
usually surfaces when one
single woman is too scared
to travel alone but there isn't
anyone else with her kind of
dough to follow along.
Hence, she tolerates Mary.

As an old friend once said,
“You gotta like it more than
you hate it or you'd quit it.”
I'd simply make other plans,
excluding Mary.

Promoting health

During the week of March
14-18, 1983 Lions Gate
Hospital will be presenting
an assortment of displays.
lectures and events titled,

Fitfest ‘83 The purpose of
the Fitfest is to promote
better = nutriGonal habits,
increased activity and

posiQive lifestyle changes
Planned for the hospital
staff are a Bowling Day and a
Fitness Fashion Show and
Sock Hop. There will also be
fitness demonstrations at the
fashion show On Tuesday
and Thursday during Fitfest.
the hospitals dieteties

department will sponsor a
Nutrition Fair.

On Wednesday. March 16
there will be an LGH Em-
ployee Assistance Program
display in the main lobby of
the hospital from 10:00 a.m.
to 3:00 p.m The public are
welcome to view the display

and ask questions of the
agencies tnvolved in the
display.

There will also be two
lectures) given by Dixie
Kilroe of North Shore Crisis
Services Society at 12:00

pm. and 12 30 pm
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Question: (This is such a
common complaint that I've
bunched it together).
Baggage! How can I get it
through my wife’s
(husband's, mother’s,
friend’s) head that one bag is
the MAX. I end up helping
her carry the stuff and it's
making me mad.

Answer: And she never
uses half the junk, either,
does she? It's easy. Refuse -
through = sprained ankles,
tropical downpours or earth-
quakes, to carry one ounce
of her stuff. I know it isn't
easy to tum down your
eighty-year-old mother when
she can't handle her bags,
but be firm. You may get
arrested in England (it's
called “Grannie bashing”),
jeered in Japan, or spat upon
in Madrid. Be strong.

Seriously, I repack
anything that looks out of
line before we leave. My
Mom hauls half her house -
ar tries to, I sort i oul,
discard the heavy stuff and
leave her with enough to get
by.

My kids know exactly how
much a suitcase weighs -
having hauled their own
since they were six. They
know that I won't lend a
hand unless they break both
arms. Brian knows that I
haul my own stuff and he
was embarassed to hell -
once - when he packed too
much and I hoisted his bag in
public.

It was shortly after he'd
been released from hospital
and I knew darned well that

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Now, he stuffs his entire
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Question: We're planning
our honeymoon. This isn’t so
much of a travel problem as
it is “management of

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with money and I don't want
him carrying the funds, or,
for that matter, anything
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