OpinionNovember 26, 1996
SPEAKOUT
AS A retail clerk, please let me give some of your readers a list of shopping hints. 1. Please be patient. Don't interrupt me when I am helping someone else. It is just as important to them as it is to you that they get what they need. 2. Please do not get mad at me when you come to the store with a vague description from a 3-year-old child, and I cannot find what you want. ...
Hints for holiday shopping
AS A retail clerk, please let me give some of your readers a list of shopping hints. 1. Please be patient. Don't interrupt me when I am helping someone else. It is just as important to them as it is to you that they get what they need. 2. Please do not get mad at me when you come to the store with a vague description from a 3-year-old child, and I cannot find what you want. I can not read your mind or the child's who is not there. 3. Most discount stores are self-service. I will gladly help you and answer any questions you have, but please do not throw a list at me and expect me to do your shopping. I also have another job to do at the same time. 4. Please treat everybody, myself and other shoppers, like you would like to be treated. If you treat others rudely, don't be surprised when you receive the same. 5. Please remember that we only sell the hot items. We do not make them at the store. If we are sold out, there is nothing I can do about it. 6. You can attract more flies with sugar than vinegar. I will remember the nice customers and the rude ones. When that hot item comes in, whom do you think I will be more likely to help? 7. And, above all, we all want to have a Merry Christmas. Please help out and do your part.
Let students pick up litter
NO ONE but the students at Central High School should be picking up the trash around Central. The students need to be made accountable for their actions. If they litter around Central, then they are apt to litter anywhere. They need to be made accountable for their actions.
Sending help to Africa
I AM sure all who have a part in the publishing and editing of the Southeast Missourian appreciate the various comments made in Speak Out. The person praising Clinton for sending troops to Zaire needs to get informed. The churches have been trying to help Africa 60 years plus. I suggest they read and clip Cal Thomas and David Broder in the paper Nov. 20.
Thanks for shopping help
I DIDN'T think to ask his name, but I want to thank the young man at Schaper's IGA in Jackson for helping with my shopping. I wish I lived close enough to shop there all the time. You are one in a million. I'll never forget the favor. God bless you. Schaper's is very lucky to have you in its service.
A really old cat
YOUR "Ask the Vet" column referred to a cat as being old at 14. I had a little tabby that lived to be 23 years old. I just wonder how many people have cats that have achieved this age.
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Let retailers help with litter
I APPRECIATE the concern of the many law-abiding citizens of Cape Girardeau, the Chamber of Commerce and the city officials who are trying to change the bad habits of those littering our streets with trash. Why haven't the fast-food restaurants and quick-shop stores gotten involved, as it is their waste being thrown into the streets and surrounding properties? It would also help if the drivers who throw the cigarette butts out their windows learn that their vehicles have ash trays to put their cigarettes in when finished.
Heed those stop signs
ABOUT THE Bertling-Lexington intersection. When are you drivers going to realize that a two-way stop means that only two directions have to stop? Instead of laying the blame on us taxpayers to foot the bill for stop signs, you need to pay attention. There's not any sort of traffic jam, and I drive through there morning and afternoon every day.
Madder than a hornet
I WAS madder than a hornet when I found out that the lawyers and judges in Missouri were wanting more money. Last thing we need to do is give more money to lawyers like that.
Salaries rank judges
AFTER READING the front page of the Missourian, I find it very enlightening to know that a judge's ability and smarts are now judged by the salary that he's paid. I find that this is quite an insult to some of our older judges.
Coaches lack facilities, funding
I HAVE a comment about the Southeast football program and what's been happening with the firing of the coaches. I think people don't understand exactly what goes on with a program like Southeast football. They're not given the scholarships that the other teams have. They are not given a facility that is better than a junior high stadium. They are not given the operational money that it takes to run a football program. Maybe the people who don't give the resources to the coaches are the ones who should be fired, not the coaches for not being able to perform their job when they're not given their resources that they need to perform their job.
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