Our Neighbors Speak
The Morrisvilte and Preston Progress, Wednesday, February 28,1996 > 3
Are you turned off by negative political advertising or do you feel informa
tion in those ads is helpful in making a voting decision?
JERRY SANDLIN
MORRISVILLE
b don’t think you benefit from
any detrimental opinions what
soever. It goes back to the old
adage, "If you can’t say some
thing good, don't say an^hing at
alii"
CAROL KINNIBURGH
MORRISVILLE
I don’t support it because it
brings everybody down to a
lower level. It’s not very classy.
BRIAN JANSHEGO
PRESTON
I expose it because they’re not
telling you what their real
opinion is on issues so you can’t
make a good judgment on what
they believe in.
KARL BLACK JR.
MORRISVILLE
I think that each politician ought
to stand on his own credentials
so I don’t support negative
campaigning.
LORETTA BYRNE
PRESTON
I feel you can benefit from it.
You learn some things that don’t
otherwise come out.
TOM BYRNE
PRESTON
I don’t like negative campaign
ing. There is too much negativity
in politics to begin with and they
just don’t emphasize positive is
sues that would cause me to
vote for them.
Above kids’ protest, housebound mom turns misery into song
By Roxanne Powers
I’ve decided that I’m going to
purchase stocks in companies
which manufacture laundry
detergent, home videos, ice melt,
n^ilk and bread. Oh...and
psychologists. Is there some way to
invest in psychologists? (Especially
those who have clients who have
children in Track 4 of the year-
round schools.)
Let me explain. My elementary
age kids "trailed out" (meaning we
parents are given daytime custody)
oa Dec. 21. They dicta’t "track back
in" until Jan. 29. Following this
long hiatus, they were in school for
only four and a half days before
bhing released back into their
parents’ custody due to the ice and
snow.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think
my kids are any worse than anyone
eise’s. There are just more of them.
More of them to haggle over the
phone, television, bathroom,
chores, friends, who has the
shortest fingernails, and food. You
see, with two refrigerators, a free
zer and a very substantial pantry,
we’re probably in real danger of a
food shortage.
The "tracking out" part wasn’t
really so bad. I was prepared for
it...kind of. I arranged for play
groups and activities, and when that
wasn’t enough I offered money and
bribes for other people to entertain
them. I even managed to laugh, al
beit maniacally, when they spilled a
can of little-girl mauve paint on
big-girl ecru colored carpet. That
redlly wasn’t so bad. I thought it
might even be fun to turn that big
pink spot into one of those sixties-
looking flowers. But even better
was that it gave me another op
portunity to tell my husband "I told
you so," in return for ripping out
the heart pine floors (that I loved
and refused to part with) in th^ and
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another upstairs room while I was
out on an errand one day about
three years ago. For the rest of his
life he’ll hear an echo of "I told you
SO...I told you SO...I told you so."
I was so well prepared for "the
tracking out" that I even developed
a strategy for dealing with the urge
to yell. I’d just belt out my very
own country and western version of
"Amazing Grace." I hate country
and western so I got some kind of
odd satisfaction from singing in
stead of yelling. At first the kids
would stop whatever it was they
were doing that was annoying me
and join in, but after the first few
hundred "Amazing Graces" the
kids began to plead, "Please Mom!
No more!" I then realized the worth
of what I had there.
When that ceased to work I took
to hiding out in the laundry room
where the incessant hum of the
washer and dryer are sometimes
preferable to voices. The only prob
lem with that is that our laundry
room is also the family chest-of-
drawers with laundry baskets
stacked in floor to ceiling shelves,
two baskets per person plus one for
sweaters and mittens, one for back
packs, etc. As you can imagine, this
room is even more in demand than
one bathroom in a seven-person
house.
If by now you still can’t under
stand the parental trauma of "snow
days" right on the tails of "tracked
out" days, just imagine that you’ve
been told you must be in three
states at once...even if you have to
arrive in separate bundles to do it.
As the children (big and little!)
made ever-increasing trips into and
out of the house to change their
soggy, snow-laden clothes, I made
ever-increasing trips to the laundry
room. As they developed stomach
viruses and got sick all over their
sheets, blankets, etc., I made rare
trips out of the laundry room.
I began to fantasize about living
in the 1700s. Of course they didn’t
have electric washers and dryers,
but most people only owned about
two changes of cbthes, so there
wasn’t that big a demand for them.
So what if things did get a little
smelly? That seems a small enough
price to pay.
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