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pvweekenbtervmav 1987 l weekender i ak i it break up the post office the canadian post office cor poration should be privatized competition is just what is needed to cure the problems of this lethargic dinasour of a quasi- government corporation the current drive by new mar- kham area residents for home de livery points to this in most dramatic fashion right now new residents of the area must use so- called super mailboxes because there is a freeze on adding new mail walks thus people in new subdivisons cant get home delivery some thing they should expect as a mat ter of course in an urban residen tial area a pressure group ram has been formed to fight this deci sion if canada post was a private corporation it would have been out of business long ago instead its entrenched unions still want the best of both worlds high wages and job security the best way then is to shut down canada post because the problems there are just too diff- cult to fix and start over again with the private sector don bernard 5s5v every thursday night the ladies are not in the kitchen some people just attract trouble some of us just seem to attract trouble not serious trouble just the social faux paus foot in the mouth did i do that type of trouble that is usually the result of honest to goodness absent mindedness and a touch of naivete my friends are all quite famil iar with my red faced look of embarassment i used to think it strange that they all suffered from the same affliction a tendency to shake their heads re peatedly from side to side until i came to realize that it was a reac tion to my off the wall behavior personally i prefer to call my self honest rather than eccentric we all like to rationalize although i suppose there is a certain amount of wisdom to the conten tion that on some occasions full disclosure of the truth can cause greater problems than if you had held back in the best interests of discretion for instance we joined a church several years back that from where i ihre bzuc stajilsy v believes that spirit should per tain only to the three part deity and not to beverages consumed we had long considered a glass of good french wine to be a welcome addition to a special meal granted i would be the first to agree that the drinking of some of the insipid plunk on the market today does constitute sin in that it reveals ones complete lack of taste anyway i refuse to adopt the habits of those who go out of town to patronize the in and out store so as not to be seen by those who would pass judgment and this has led to some rather heated discussions and the inevitable head shakes when i insist that we should be less concerned with the so called delusion of people who see no harm in a glass of wine with dinner and more concerned with the way people hurt them selves and others through the self delusion that goes with such things as infidelity but what has found me in the biggest pickle of all is the subject of gambling now i dont gamble as a rule and i cant even remem ber the last time i bought a lottery ticket quite simply i dont like to throw money away several years ago however i took part in the local lions clubs trip of the month fund raiser i figured that it was a good way to contribute money towards the new recreation complex and the proposed hospital project and being a down south freak i liked the odds afforded by the fact of there being only 200 tickets sold when my number was pulled i gleefully shared the news with all who were within earshot only to find that once again i had offended the sensitivities of the good folks at the new church af ter a sleepless night trying to fi gure out which charity to give my prize to i decided to let my kids have it so they got to go to puerta vallarta with us draws are one thing but when it comes to betting i am the first to admit to the improperness of this practice granted in days gone by i would occasionally bet on a world series game but it was usually done as a ploy to guaran tee that my team would win id bet against them and sure enough my uncanny record of never having won a sports bet would remain intact it was worth the sacrifice so that my squad could be assured of winning the big one well it would appear that ive now got a major dilemma on my hands sensing the demise of the maple leafs last weekend i took it upon myself to try and stem the detroit tide i agreed to wager 10 on the deciding game on detroit so that my perfect record of losing sports bets would make winners of the leafs i now have ten bucks in my pos session that i dont know what to do with suggestions would be appreciated but at least ive finally got the monkey off my back i know that while i may nev er win the coin toss that decides who gets to be the home team in baseball it is possible for me to win a bet and you can bet ill never place another wager jconomistsun the tribune weekender bruce annan publisher 9 heritage rd markham l3p1m3 2942200 4959440 6402100 6492292 published every saturday by 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