OpinionJune 13, 2001
SPEAK OUT
LAST THURSDAY when I was ready to leave Food Giant with my groceries, it was raining hard. A lovely, smiling young woman entered, saw me waiting for the downpour to lessen some and insisted that I use her umbrella to go to my car. She did not want the umbrella returned. ...
A real sweetheart
LAST THURSDAY when I was ready to leave Food Giant with my groceries, it was raining hard. A lovely, smiling young woman entered, saw me waiting for the downpour to lessen some and insisted that I use her umbrella to go to my car. She did not want the umbrella returned. We hear so much about young people who are rude and uncaring. How wonderful it was to encounter such a pretty, concerned individual. I did remember to ask her name, and learned that she is Laurie Pleimann. Thank you again, Laurie, for being such a sweetheart.
Right from wrong
I'M AN elderly, disabled woman. I live on Kingsbury Drive in Cape Girardeau. While I was gone, my mail was picked out of my mailbox and thrown into the yard and scattered. My neighbor across the street came over and picked it up, picked up my papers and watched for the people responsible. I've never had any trouble with people disturbing my mail. I think it's children who are doing this, and I think their parents should punish them. I really love children and have no desire to make them my enemies or to be their enemy, but they need to know what's right and what's wrong.
Unsettling incident
RECENTLY, MY husband and I were sitting in the parking lot of Freedom Rock, a wonderful place for young people and owned by our church. A man drove in like he was in the Indy 500. He was fuming, slamming his car door, and went in and picked up a young girl there. The girl looked frightened, and no wonder. He did a couple of circles in the parking lot, squealed his tires, and raced out on Kingshighway. Our hearts went out to this young girl. She was waiting by the door for him for some time, and had just left the door for a few minutes, and that's when he came. The young lady was in a wonderful place, a place that can help get our teens ready to do the Lord's work and enjoy themselves in an atmosphere of love and acceptance.
Leave it at park
MY FEELINGS about the Fourth of July fireworks being downtown: The fireworks display has been at Arena Park for decades, where people can sit in their vehicles or lawn chairs and can relax and enjoy it. Now it will be downtown. I guess this year I'll go to Jackson again. Thanks a lot, city council.
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Mixed-up priorities
IT'S A darn shame when towns like Cairo can get millions of dollars in grant money for tourism but you can't get money to help with dialysis, transportation, and things like that from Illinois.
Personal decisions
WHAT DOES it say about society when we will give a huge civil judgment for making poor decisions regarding one's health? A man in California was awarded $3 billion in a civil suit against Phillip Morris. The man has lung cancer, yet for his entire adult life the damages of smoking had been known, reported and published, even on cigarette packets. I have high cholesterol. I guess I should sue fast-food restaurants.
Mind your manners
WHAT IN the world has happened to the men in this town? Every restaurant you go into you see men dining with their hats on. It's very unmanly and unmannerly to wear your hat at the table. I know their mothers taught them better than this. If they didn't, they should have. It's bad enough to see teen-agers and college kids with their little ball caps on at the table in restaurants, but for you old geezers with gray hair who still have your hats on, bearing emblems of your civic organizations or military insignias, I think you're setting a bad example. Come on, guys, take off your hats at your meals whether in public or at home.
It's all pork
SO MOZART'S death may have been related to his consumption of pork cutlets. In a similar vein, a lot of people's pocketbooks are picked to death by pork-barrel politics.
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