4 — Wednesday, June 4,:1986 - North Shore News

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the ‘sun, is shining. ‘There seemed t0.be a. bit. of hope. he morni

‘Should have aborted. ‘the mis-_ ‘the moment’ we

: that the. nearest’ parking we could .

; t was five blocks away,.on the

other side of Main Street, We park-:

ed the cer —-for $6 — in a vast.

‘middle of. an enormous puddle, then waded back to the. fair.

. With the.two-year-old girl in a, collapsible buggy, the’ seven-year: | . ‘old boy trotting eagerly and impa-

varound : my,

to take.a pic- re‘of the happy-family in ‘front.

abandoned industrial area in the - -

‘tiently’ ahead and a camera slung i ' food inside was appallingly. long. __.We tried to cope with the situation

Bob Hunter

of:the giant silver geodesic dome.

The press of bodies was so relentless that it took several minutes to get an opening between

- them to get the shot 1 wanted. But

‘the camera — one of those costly. “new computerized devices that does everything | automatically —

wouldn’t work. No click. No pic. The trouble with: computerized

cameras, of course, is that there's’:

: nothing you can do to fix them. OK

— let’s give up on that:. ns ‘By. then the. sun “was, bright.

“-énough that the jackets: we had’

- been wearing to protect us from the” ': expected rain were too hot to wear, so’ we. had to stack’ them on the: handles of the buggy... We had ‘timed everything | so. poorly that it was past lunch hour

_ and both kids were hungry. Accor- .

dingly, we set-off for the nearest eating place. Ho, ho. |

baby. bottle and Maybe the: ‘baby b

Thurs. and Fri. until 9pm Sat.,

“You: could: buy drinks outside: 7 but no food.-The line-up ‘for. the”:

® strictly personal ®

. “So oe a 2 ee ee

she rejoined me,. the baby. had

slurped down her ‘pop drink and was struggling to Bet out, of the

. buggy.

Daddy had, of course, fi nished

his beer in despair, and as the baby

climbed out of the buggy, it tipped

under the weight of the jackets,:

spilling our clothes on the asphalt, where she had spilled a fair amount ‘of sticky pop drink.

A family sat down at a plastic’ table next tous, and the table cav-. --ed in. Our baby started to cry. A ‘couple . of. yards. away, an. Overweight older womdn had some

‘kind of a seizure, which resulted in

. medics and teenage guards trying : in a panic to help her, but not feel- ‘ing quite sure what to do when she

refused: oxygen. ”

‘ The baby tried to trundle offi in- to the crowd and screamed herself blue when we dragged her back to

1 barely edible anyway. The boy. cori wed to lobby for an Expo Er- e:inflatable. :

havi jing fun,” my wife announced nsing my deep existential gloom

-a:pavilion or idee we did: make: a" final futile

the buggy. The hot dogs were cold’ and

can’t- have fun if you’re not.

Sun. and Holidays until 6pm

Weather: Sunny with cloudy : periods on Wednesday.

' Thursday, cloudy with ;

_ isolated showers. Highs , moar 19°C.

NEVER _QUT.

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