C6-Sunday News, April 20, 1980

And Barbara’ s safety tip

Lemonade hasn’t found me a Maharaja yet but at last she has made me unique! I must own the first car in history ever to receive a “love letter” on a gas bill from the Imperial Oil Company.

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b y Barbara McCreadie

A while ago, I wrote about our trip to Tofino in Lemonade. Pablo, my young

-Argentine daughter and I drove there, accompanied by mishaps such as no heating system, no defrosting system, no heat guage and a muffler that gave up half-way along the road.

I also told you about the kindly Esso station owner, Harry Tielleman, in Tofino who patched up the muffler for next to nothing and sent us On our way with plenty of good laughs. After Harry finished the muffler, I asked him to take a look at the heating system and see if he could re-connect any of it.

“Who in hell ever did this?” he exclaimed in horror as he surveyed a system of disconnected pipes — one clamped shut with a set of mechanic’ s clamps.

“Oh some OTHER turkey!”, | replied absently.

“After all I've done for you, you call me a TURKEY? You really know how to hurt a guy, don't you?” He grinned at me.

That’s me — _ foot-in- mouth disease, every time.

Yesterday, I opened my Imperial Oil statement and

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theres on the bottom of Harry’s small bill was this note:

HOPE LEMONADE'’S HEALTH O.K. LOVE, HARRY, THE OTHER TURKEY.

If you get to Tofino, don’t miss visiting Harry. After all, how many people do you know who send love letters on their bills?

DEAR BARBARA: As a travel agent with five years experience, I take strong exception to your remark about “not dealing with an agent who doesn’t show the sign from the Internaticnal Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers”. Personally, I've never heard of the thing. And, as far as malaria goes, the local health unit can advise people about these things far better than you or I can. You cost me a lot of bookings when you wrote that stupid article on Waikiki and probably more with this next piece of stupidity. What are you going to bore us with next?

ANSWER: It is a_ real pleasure to receive a letter from an agent as well- informed as yourself. As for boring you, it might be difficult as it is clear that you don’t read. Most of Canada's leading newspapers have carried comprehensive articles based on Dr. Marcolongo's organization, particularly since the recent upsurge of malaria. As far back as September 30, 1978, the Financial Post printed an article entitled ‘The Membership That Can Save Your Life”. However, the Financial Post won’t need to be on your required-reading- list if you continue to lose clients at your present rate.

I'd suggest that you start doing your homework.

The local health units do the best they can but they don't see the majority of

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If I can scare every traveller, every agent and every doctor into action, we'd lose far fewer Canadians to exotic ailments. As long as I have the chance to just “Bore them to death”, I'll do it. DEAR BARBARA: I almost hesitate to bother you with my small problem when you have been so many places and done so many wonderful things. How I envy you! I'm a pensioner with no outside income and have been in- vited by my son and daughter-in-law to join them and the grandchildren on a visit to Winnipeg this summer by car.

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