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| Pm a nice tourist...

YOU KNOW ME. I'm a nice ‘tourist. | unpleasant little scrimmages,
never complain, no matter what kind of I never kick. | never nag. | never criti-
service | get, : cize, | wouldn't dream of making a scene
I'll go in a restaurant sit and sit while as I've seen people doing in public places.
the waitress gossips with her boy friend 1 think that’s awful.

and never bothers to see if my hamburger I'm @ nice tourist! I'll tell you what
is ready, Sametimes someone who came in else | am, |'m the tourist who never comes
after | did, gets my’ hamburger, but | back!

don't say a word, That's my little revenge for getting
lf the soup is cold or the cream for the pushed around, That's why | take whatever
. coffee is sour, I'm-nice about it. they hand out. . . | know I'm not coming
en | if the service station attendant fails bock. It’s true that this doesn't relieve my
mmu| to check my oil or polish the windshield, ! feelings right off, as telling them what |
ma: don’t even raise my eyebrows. think of them would. But in the long run,

ay | _ When | go into @ store and get surly ~ it's a far more deadly revenge.
treatment ond lack of sympathy with my In fact, a nice tourist like myself, mult-
browsing around, | don’t make a fuss. plied by others of my kind, can just about

When | register at a motel or hotel, I'm ruin a business. And there's a lot of nice
thoughtful of the other person. If | get a people in the world just like me. When we

snooty manager who gets nettled because | get pushed far enough we go down the
want to look at my room before making up street to another restaurant, We eat ham-
my mind, I'm polite as can be, | don't burgers in places where they're smart
believe rudeness in return is the answer. enough to hire help who appreciate nice
You might say | wasn't raised that way. tourists. Together, we do-them cut of
And it’s seldom | complain about the millions every year.
poor room service, the broken-down eleva- He laughs best, they say, who laughs
tar, the leaking bathtub faucet or the tele- last, | laugh when | see them so frantically
vision set that won't work and refuses to spending their money on advertising to get
refund my quarter. I've found people are me back, when they could have hald me
just about always disagreeable to me when in the first place with a few kind words

1 do. Life is too short for indulging in these and a smile,

Bad temper can be fatal .. . |

ONE OF THE greatest traffic dangers This is the kind of day that can easily
is the tendency to lose cur tempers when get a motorist into an accident, When he
things go badly. ‘ gets to the point where his temper is out

Of the many aggravations faced by of control, his driving is out of controf, too.
motorists, the curious behavior of other To deal with this situation it is necessary
road users is among the most annoying. to opply a little self-analysis.
These irritations always seem worse when Are the things which are making us
we are pushed for time, upset about some- cranky worth risking life for — our own
thing that has gone wrong or are feeling and the lives of other quite innocent people

tired, H

The temptation to stick our head out of with wham we have no quarrel at all?
the car window and tell some other driver Better to park the car and take a bus
a few ‘home truths’ becomes pretty irresist- or taxi instead of living the rest of our
ible. Or we stam on the brakes, crash the lives with the horror caused by a bad tem-
gears and wrench at the wheel. per — or not living any more at all.

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A START WAS MADE FRIDAY on two Terrace tennis courts to be situated on the old
concrete slabs adjacent to Riverside Elementary school, About 15 members of the Terrace
Tennis Club began erecting fences built of lumber donated by three Terrace mills, Weather
conditions prevented completion of the job during the weekend but work will resume when
warmer weather retums, The Terrace Tennis Club has issued a vote of thanks to the
mills and building supply businesses that contributed towards the project. (staff photo)

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