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Page 4, News, Tuesday, November 26 1991 | Editorial 'Tel.: 825-3747 The Terrace Bay - Schreiber News is published every Tuesday by Laurentian Publishing Limited, Box 579, 13 Simcoe Plaza, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT-2W0 Tel.: 807- 825-3747. Second class mailing permit 2264. Member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspaper Association. Contession of Bambi's killer If I didn't know better, I would say there's some one out to get me, at least where cars are concermed. As some of you may know, I wrecked my new car last week when I hit a deer about five minutes outside of Nipigon. As I came around the corner, I saw the buck running on the road. I hit the brakes and swerved to try and avoid it, hitting the deer on the rump, and then the car started ducktailing. Finally, I hit a soft shoulder in the road, the car rolled over three times, and I crawled out of a broken window. 'The unusual thing was, I remember everything as if it hap- pened in slow motion. The time between seeing the deer and starting to roll is a bit of a blur, but when the car started rolling, everything seemed to slow down. I remember hearing what sounded like a loud waterfall, and I remember wondering if I was going to lose consciousness or break a bone or something. But then the car stopped rolling, and I was upside down. At first I was extremely pleased and relieved because I hadn't broken anything. Then I realized my new car, which I hadn't even made a bloody payment on, was totalled. Worse, I was only insured for personal liability and personal damage, which meant I couldn't make an insurance claim. I know it was dumb not to get comprehensive, but I had intended to upgrade my insurance quite soon. After all, nobody expects to wreck their car before they make a payment on it. Anyway, I crawled out of the car, and managed to wave a couple of vehicles over to the side of the road. A trucker called the O.P-P. for me, and made me sit in his truck to rest. It was then I looked in the mirror and saw that I was covered in mud, making me look much worse than I felt. An ambulance took me to the hospital, where they x-rayed my skull and found nothing (of course), and Greg Giddens, the editor of the Nipigon paper, gave me a ride back home. I swear, I don't plan these things to give me material for my editorials. They just keep happening. Many people have since told me that it's better just to hit the animal than to try and avoid hitting it and swerving across the road. But when something happens that fast, you don't really have a chance to think about what you want to do, or how you could best handle the situation. You just react as fast as you can, and hope for the best. Most people have taken a relatively light view of the acci- dent, especially since my most serious injury is a bruised shoul- der blade. Some people have told me that I can't hunt deer without a license. Others have asked me to split the meat with them, or simply said "oh deer, oh deer." But my favourite comment was from Sue Roy, our Vice President's executive assistant. When I called her, she said, "So, I hear you killed Bambi." And I mean it this time. Not another word about my car trou- bles. Single copies 50 cents. Subs. rates: $18 per year. Seniors $12 (local); $29 per year (out of 40 mile radius); $38 in U.S. Add GST to yearly subs. Advertising Mgr Publisher.............. PanOl ss. Sales Representative......Lisa LeClair ais. Gayle Fournier oe Chery! Kostecki Admin. Asst......... Production Asst A. Sandy Harbinson ...Linda R Harbinson ye DIFFICULT To TELL WHO'S SLEEPIN!, OR WHO'S GAININ', ii .- and how accepted -- the credit Just between you, me and that life-size cut-out of Karl-Malden...could you live without credit cards? I could. For about 30 days -- 28 it it's February and a leap year. I hate to admit it, but credit cards have got me sewn up, nailed down and also treble-hooked through the lower mandible. And I'm not alone. Most adult Canucks are packing plastic these days. A couple of years ago, a study by Royal Trustco Limited indicated there was somewhere between 13 million and 14 million credit | cards fluttering around in the | Canadian economy. Fifty percent of Canadian -- credit card holders pay off their | balances every month. The other hapless half keeps wracking up the charges and getting further and further behind the financial 8 ball. It's ironic just how ubiquitous - card has become. I can use it to buy gas, alfalfa meal or hockey tickets without raising an eyebrow. I can roll through some major department store in a strange city, outfit myself with a new wardrobe, matching luggage, a whole set of ski equipment, and a denful of books and CD's. I can blow into a five star restaurant, order filet mignon, the best Bordeaux, with a Havana Corona and a snifter of 202year old brandy to wash it down... And I might not have a subway token to my name. All I have to do when I'm through is wave my magic plastic pellet, figure out the tip, and sign my name on the dotted line. Sure, there's a dread reckoning at the end of each month, but it's easy to forget that when you see a tennis racket you lust for or a sweater with your name on it. ne ae ee A ae ee ae Arthur Black too easy. And I'm sad to report that it's about to get even easier. The next time you go through the supermarket-checkout the clerk may well ask you "Will that be cash, or charge?" Yes, credit cards are coming to the grocery stores. It's already happened at an Associated Supermarket in New York city, where shoppers can now pay for their . weekly groceries with credit cards. Executives from Visa and MasterCard International can be spotted peeping over the tiered display of canned kidney beans in Aisle Five, taking notes and cheering under their breath. But supermarkets aren't the only new target for credit card companies. {They've mounted an | offensive in the Soviet Union as well. For the first time in history, Muscovites can know the thrill of carrying plastic, instead of rubles, in their wallets. Kredobank cards, issued in a joint deal with Visa International, will allow carriers to buy goodies at more than one thousand commercial outlets across the Soviet Union. "In just one day we have received 20 applications" cooed Igor Lispanov, director of Kredobank. "I think there will be significant demand." Indeed. And think how much more demand there will be once there are actual goods on the shelves of those one thousand commercial outlets. Then every Kredobank card holder can lumber him or herself with insupportable burdens of personal debt and become free, prosperous and enlightened just like we . xrractarm©56.arc