European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday january 30.1987 columns & comments today s crossword shed a fear for that old Wagon Brand Rhooney the old station Wagon is in intensive care. I m not sure it s Gonglo pull through this time. Last saturday 1 started out inc driveway and heard an unfamiliar heavy grinding noise. Over the years during he Lime i be put 115,000 Miles on it. My 1977 Ford country Squire has made a lol of noises each with is own meaning. This was different. It As not a Pebble in a cased it into the five mile River garage just a mile from the House and Elf it to be checked Uver. Later in he Day i dropped Back and my worst fears were confirmed a had a broken Axle. 1 talked with Malcolm in hushed tone about whether old faithful should be put Oul of the Way or kept alive by heroic measures. If i gave him the thumbs up the car would need surgery. Thumb Down it would be gone from my life forever. Malcolm told me thai first he d have to operate to make sure there Wasno serious damage to the gears. If they were of he could realign the Axle itself and Weld the Axle casing. 1 could t Bear to we the car that had Given me such Good service for nine years be pal Down so i gave him the go ahead the Axle � being welded this n car has a problem we re Alt inclined to think of a new one. We re looking for an excuse to Bay a new car. I does t take much and car Loans come easy. Even a dead Battery can gel you thinking the car in t Worth keeping. Buying a new car if the ultimate in recreational shopping and Moit of us do in a lot More often than u necessary. The urge to buy anew car is a disease for which they ought to develop a idea of footing around for a new car a pealed to me but As i stood there about delivering the death blow 10 the station Wagon i knew i could t Doit. What would happen to my old car it was Only Worth a few Hundred dollars before uie Axle broke. It s not a wreck bul there arc the inevitable dents and scratches on it. You can t do anything about the peo ple who open car doors and hit yours Wilh the Sharp Edge of theirs in the supermarket parking lot and there Are other signs of use. Afler All 1 did Back into that Hab loading Dock. I did catch the Corner of the garage Tumin around in he driveway that Day sever Al years ago. That truck did skid into me on the Cobblestone pavement Down on canal Street Pic Day before Christmas in 198. So the car has Bee through the wars. No prospective buyer could look at my station Wagon and be footed into thinking it had led pampered ire it looks Al of its 1 1 8,000 Miles. If i had decided to abandon the. Ear. I know what would have happened. Malcolm would have Lowed it10 the car scavengers occasionally stripping it of a door hinge Here or a Generator there. Malcolm Proba Bly could t get any More from the people Al the car parts dump than in would Cost him Lolow it there. At that make it even harder for me to abandon he Wagon. I like it 1 know it s silly to fed affection for an inanimate object but j d hate to see that new get into the hands of someone who was going to abuse it or Chon in up for spire parts. My station Wagon is being fined Row and i Hope everything comes out of. It s Good to have a car you Don t worry about denting. The Wagon was always the one hat got left Oul in the rain and wow. It was theone i used when there was Salt and ice on the roads. If there was a dirty Job 10 be done 1 did in in the Wagon. I saved my Good car because i wanted the Good car to Sast. I be bad three Good cars since i bought the Wagon. The Wagon mistreatment and All has out lasted the cars i pampered. When i get in Back the first thing i m going to do is Jive it a Nice full tank of High octane Gas some clean fresh Oil and a warm Bath. I want the Wagon to know that it s loved. Of in Media Sov few other woman gets Good press Byak Buchwald we had a Lively discussion Al the Harcourt dinner table the other night. In concerned lovers and what makes them different from other people Barbara Tommalee started in Why do biographers always devote six chapters to the other woman and two paragraphs to he wife she asked. And Why do All inc great legends of love have to do wit people who have to sneak around alleys to give their hearts to another How come women Levoie Jolo 40years of i hair lives to their husbands and everyone remarks How Beautiful inc mistresses were?1- arc you having trouble at Home dear Sally Trimble asked her sweetly. Barbara turned red. No i m not having trouble at Home. I m just mad because the other women gel such a Good press and we wives gel such a Lousy one. What do mistresses have that we Don to Herman Woolen said time which it the Man essential ingredient in a love affair. The other woman is always ready to do anything you want to do. Shell either dress to go out or not dress and slay in which Ever suits you. She will dance All night or throw togs on your fire whichever comes first but most important of All die always has a Lovely lilt in her voice. Sally said. Pig Iti feathers. The ration tie other woman it always ready to go out is that be does t have to get supper for the kids feed the dog pal gain the car or Iron her dress at 7 o clock at night we Musl Herman said Ihal when you put other women and wives together you Are mining apples with oranges. The wife he Many role to play in life the mistress Only one maybe two. If she s a Good listener. The reason the Oiher woman is so honoured in literature is she has a mystery about her which produces that mix of excitement and in Trigue to keep the heart pounding and the blood boil ing. People Donl hold in against the wife that she comes in second in her Zeal for living. But Lei s face it what is More romantic two lovers having a bottle of wine in the Park or a wife and husband in bed watching Tvr Why asked Marta Diane Are we just discussing relationships Between husbands and their mistresses an not wives and i hair lovers it seems the Toven of wives Are As interesting As mistresses of husbands not necessarily said Elliot gum Bah. A wife cannot devote As much attention to a passionate love affair because the is always worried that this could be the Day the Man will come to fix her dishwasher. It s worse if she has the school car a wife s Lime is not her own i said. Herman Woolen said til Tell you what else sets the other woman apart from everybody else. She Al ways looks Saputy and never Lesli you How much things Cost. And she has a song in her tried to win some Brownie Points for myself. I can t understand the fuss Over the other woman 1 said. Everyone knows her role is exaggerated an blown up by historians to make More titillating read ing for breathless could see my wife putting her band around her soup plate. She we glaring at ," 1 Laid. Believe if you have a Choice and i m not saying you do that you should always pay homage to the wife because a lol of the urn she is the woman behind the 1 had l ducked the soup plate would have hit me right Between the eyes. 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