European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes March columns comments today crossword we think Well just hang around Here by Patricia Cody Collett from now 1 refuse to listen to anyone Over Here when they Tell me How few friends they it simply cannot be until i came i didst know just How Many friends Are devoted to something about being stationed in Europe brings stateside folks flocking to our tiny some of these people i dont recall right others have names i cant pronounce or mention Mutual friends Ive never heard visitors started arriving immediately after the movers rolled in the refrigerator and its been a nonstop trucking in Ever who Are they not counting our drying rack has had the travelling clothes of a woman who been a third Grade classmate of mine but whom 1 haunt heard from in 30 years a Macys clerk who i had occasion to speak with for about four minutes in when i attempted to Exchange a pair of flip flops a Horace fish neck though it appears i have nothing in common with any of these delightful they have much in common with one for is either Between undergoing divorce or trial or is otherwise gifted with seemingly unlimited vacation time to spend at my Humble has confided that he or she is on a startlingly limited shoestring but that this visit to Germany is their trip of 1 dont want to seem but it does appear strange when Back folks who were reluctant to take a Crosstown bus to visit will Fly Halfway around the planet to do it sack out for Days in Airport standby then buckle into a Metal Cylinder for eight hours where they travel at inhuman Alti at inhuman speeds across the Atlantic but that raring to go somehow gets up and once our guests Settle into that Back room of from hard won i Tell you that the nine most unnerving words you can hear from a prolonged House guest Are these we think Well just hang around that came As a Surprise to my who was expecting her retired inlays for the entire summer 3 say the entire what in Hea Vens name Are you going to do i asked not to said after a few Well steer mom and dad to the a weekend in two Days in that sort of be off by themselves having a Good time and the summer will Fly Well have our no big food and All will be from what i Carlas folks Are having a great Treyve read All the tour literature Carla got for Treyve listened to All the stories of Carlas asking plenty of specific questions and taking and Carlas folks got a big bang out of her eur Pean slide but come the fateful morning when Carla suggests to mom and dad that they try a tour of i hair own we think Well just hang around Good but needing a Little space even from loved ones just one of the hazards of a full there Are other sentences capable of a whinging the most congenial Host i told Harry this is my vacation of a lifetime and in not going to lift a Finger so dont worry about me interfering in your aint eaten in on of those dad burned restaurants in 40 years dont get enough in one of those places to fill my do you mind if we borrow your camera gear while were Here ours is much too expensive to risk now look what youve done Trish just Send us the Bill for a huh sorry about the did you have her Long you Why dont i just put my foot i would if Between the Itol Laway Beds i could locate a place to put the though i Gripe a faces from Home even those of virtual strangers Are wonderful to see Over and in a sucker for than you notes that read if it want for we never would have been Able to come to i know this assignment int going to last who knows when ill get the Chance to see these people once were stateside unless were stationed near Disneyland or Atlantic Well probably have Little need for a guestroom and our hosting Days will be a thing of the does that sound like a chump to you the Florida interest rate was irresistible by Art Buchwald the recent savings and loan scandal in Ohio has Sha Ken the banking Industry very what happened was the Home state savings Bank had invested its depositors Money in a Florida company that specialized in dealing in government the company was shut Down by the Sec after it account for millions of dollars of Bonds it claimed to have on when word got Back to Ohio that Home state was stuck with bad the Good citizens of Cincinnati decided it might be prudent to take their Money out of the unfortunately everyone got the idea at the same and panic set not Only for Home state but also for other banking institutions in the governor had no Choice but to declare a Long Bank Holiday to Cool Down All the people who were screaming for their Sav i asked a former Ohio banker not Home state who also got burned How something like this could take we made a it could have happened to any that what the people of Ohio Are afraid i Why would a Bank risk so much Money with a Small Florida securities company you should have seen their offices in every dealer had a suite overlooking the you mean you invested your depositors Money in a firm because you were impressed with their offices of course hold i Bankers dont risk their customers savings in a company just because it owns a it want Only the they also paid More interest than other firms in the Bond the Competition for deposits is fierce these and if we can offer just a Quarter of a percent More to the Public we can put the Guy across the Street out of people dont under stand that we cant let their Money sit in our if we offer them a higher rate of then we have to get a higher rate of interest for that Why we went to they were Able to pay us and at the same time it was Safe because they were backing our deposits with government except Many of Tihe securities didst now youre getting into Why didst you ask to see the Bonds we do you think were from Missouri they showed them to us and then put them Back in the didst it occur to you that they might have been showing the same collateral to different customers frankly it never crossed our this one Guy had a Home you nobody lives like that unless there in retrospect your Bank have been better off if you had taken the Bonds Back to Ohio instead of leaving them in Miami have done f i had asked for the Securi ties i would have Hurt their and they would have told me to invest my Money somewhere perhaps that would have been the Best thing that could have happened to at least you have tossed All your depositors Money into the Okefenokee but at the i would never have gotten such a Good interest rate for Joanie reaps to gives him a Shewn St special run Bluith across 1 Stromboli output 5 one of 8 in a byte 8 Petty quarrel 12 War god 13 fermented drink 14 Rural path 15 voyages 17 italian Noble House 18 clip sheep 19 doctoral papers 21 bark cloth 24 who am argue 25 deceive 28 presently 30 duct 33 Bank 34 examine an account 35 Spanish Queen 36 twice 37 rubber Trees 38 concoct by Eugene Sheffer 39 Baroness 59 repose 16 cons Tel title Down lation 41 utahs 1 cuts off 20 clue Flower 2 biblical 22 Singer 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