European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Pagtam the stars an stripes monday june 16, 1980 nothing succeeds inefficiency i love to watch experts do always think the Way they do something is More important than doing something. The think there is a perfect system. I disagree. I Don t believe in magic but neither do i believe in science. Any prolific doer will Tell you that efficiency gels in the Way of getting the Job of my neatest most Well organized friends Are the least productive. They Circle task for weeks beforehand trying to determine strategy anticipating All the possible snafus sizing up the situation. And that s Only the non beginning. Then a week or 10 Days before the garage is to be cleaned or the scholarly paper written or the car purchased these neat of and fanatics Start the countdown leading up to the beginning. They make a lot of lists get plenty of second opinions read a few issues of consumer reports or the entire encyclopedia. The efficiency people Call this gathering Back ground material or boning what they Don t get around to until the very last minute is the Job can stay one from one s appointed task faster than a foolproof system. I first be came conscious of How inefficient efficiency could be when my husband and i moved Frost. Louis to new Haven. We had t been mar ried Long and i liked to think my husband had the same Slapdash habits i had. I knew that nothing is As important As doing something an getting it Over with so As to free up More time for sitting around drinking iced Tea. It was amazing now much i got done by not making a single plan or adopting a single , we were planning to move and my husband s organizational skills began to com into play weeks ahead of time. We were going to rent a a haul to move our two or three possessions across the country. It was a big decision and the fact that we decided to do i ourselves seemed to bring out the worst in my husband. Night after night he Drew a Little diagrams about How to arrange the furniture to save it from being scratched. He rounded up additional help and screened our friends for degree of sober responsibility and ability to react cooly under pressure. He got a Dolly brought in rope estimated our total work time broke it Down into evenings and weekends an gave me Earnest lectures on packing techniques. He decided we would need two weeks to pack estimating that a Complete dinner set for 12, three pots two frying pans and a Fondue pot would require so Many inches of space and so Many packing hours relative to the entire task. He consulted past and future movers around the neighbourhood. He read up on truck weights and Highway routes. How to move was All he thought about for weeks before the big big Day itself did not go according to plan. The office nay business lasted Long enough to cause one spat and two full blown arguments but it was t Long before we dropped Tkv Mike Sinclair i a year in my Barcelona answer to saturday s panic. 41 Oriental Coin 41 chief Tokyo once w Hamlet 51 Harrow s Rone rival Down 13 Galatea s 1 French beloved Painter and ii Sond Arac sculptor tree avg. Solution time n Man. 6-16 dear Ann a while Back i Reada news Story about a Young Man who sued his parents because the damaged him emotionally. In other words they did a Rotten Job of bringing him up and he Felt they should pay in hard , Loo had a nightmarish child Hood. I was physically abused by my father and verbally abused by my Mother. My first husband was a Gambler the second a drunk. Then i became involved wit three losers a dope addict a mama s boy and a m now undergoing therapy because i be difficulty relating Tomy own children. I m also trying to find out Why i m attracted to such terrible , 1 earn a very Good salary. I be the respect of my employer and the people i work with i Don t want to go to an attorney and sound As if i m crazy but feel my parents should pay for treating me so cruelly what options do i have no initials dear . So far As i know m child has Ever successfully sued his parents for bringing him of Iftner you i d forget it and double up on the therapy. Women who repeatedly pick terrible types Are lacking i self esteem. Suing your parents won t make you feel better about yourself. It could in fact make you feel worse. Dear Ann i Hope you la not think i m being Picky but i appreciate it if you d Tell me Why so often people say in conversation i Don t mean to change the subject an then they do just exactly that or they will say i Don t want. To complain. And then they go ahead and complain. I m irked whenever this occurs and it happens quite often. What can be done a Yankee dear Yankee not Bloomia thing. Accept the fact that Solo people Hare deeply ingrained speech habits and a tin of my pet irritation to when someone says to make along Story by the time they get to that phrase Iff Toolate already. Dear Ann i m an 18-year-Oldhigh school senior female who s always been considered steady and reliable. I be had a part time Job for several years and have a sizable saving account. The problem i want to visit Apen pal in Australia. My parents think i m too Young to trave that distance alone. The farthest i be been allowed to go is Syra Cuse on a m not unfamiliar with air ports taxis and such. If i fall hat on my face i la admit it and Chalk it up to experience. But they won t give me a Chance to prove myself. I think my mom does t want me to go became i m the oldest and she does twant to let go of me. A lot is Riding on your answer. What do you say chomping at the bit dear cheap lag if to were mine i d let Yon go but you re not. 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