European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Columns Rocky Road by Stephanie fames a diary of one mad House husband by John Windrow staff columnist from comes startling at the closing session of the United nations decade for women conference a gang of militant housewives called for a on Day worldwide strike by the housewives want to get paid for their in a diabolically Clever they will refuse to beat Iron Wash dishes or Cook on the Industrial world will probably regard All this As another terrorist strike against Western am thrilled and offer the army of housewives my undying Ive been and its not a pretty in the United states Navy gave me an honorable discharge As part of its clean up America i was 26 years cast out on an uncaring fresh from fighting communism in the bars of Manila and there were no parades for me As i stamped up Broadway in the Urban Jungle of san did you Ever try to get a Job with a degree in English literature and four years experience As a boiler officer what can you kid i can quote expound on Melville and his White or i can turn water into can you do anything else of i can turn steam Back into i have been through some extremely Short Job it looked like a life of idleness was in store for and i decided to be As upbeat As Bear your afflictions my wife had a after id been lying about the House for a few Days drinking wine and slipping off to the padres she announced she was not going to work and do housework to i think one should be supportive in these and i cheerfully offered to search the classified ads for someone seeking employment As a she was not so i bit the Bullet and agreed to do the now the truth can be i was a Kitchen it was Bon grinding our apartment had three rooms counting the the inside of the place was As big As the Interior of an 1958 maybe even bigger than Ive never been a i boldly agreed to clean one room a Day and Cook things quickly fell into a dreary invariably i was too beat to get up and fix her she was very decent about but when i drank some read the and sat out on our Little porch for a while looking at the it hit there were dirty dishes lurking in the a plate and Glass May not sound like much to those who have not been that comes out to 49 items to be washed in a weeks i might add that if you decide to pile up All 49 and do them in one fell people Start raising their eyebrows and making catty remarks about the pile of dirty dishes in your then theres a room to bedrooms Arent so but once you make up the you cant get Back in living rooms involve a certain amount of dusting and straightening pushing dust about was Light but How does one straighten up All i could Ever figure out was to push everything from one Side of the room to the did you straighten up she asks when she gets cant you Tell dont get your feelings i was just then she starts straightening up All Over and you can get busier than a bar hostess at a Shriner convention trying to clean up a As it i was Lucky to get out of the House by after i shot a Little hit the Beach and dropped by the local for a few it was time to Start racking my brains about whats for Honey she says when she comes through the dont i get a kiss first sure you now whats for dinner i thought wed eat you never take me and in bored out of my but in put your feet ill mix you a drink and then Well go out for a pizza and a in not Gonna hang around watching soap operas All Day and then just watch you fall asleep in front of the tube after i want a Little excitement in my she usually gave i know it May not have been Cricket on my but after i want getting paid for All that its a mans world any Way you look at july stripes Magazine