European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Columns mow s a Good time to worry about the Economy by Dave Barry Knight Ridder i his is an t Udu null if to bit Omu Al.irnnji1 about Chi i Lominy. Linn1 Iriri the news almost any Niht Ini i  if Viiu la  to in   Lii   plunged lil la Laird Tiwi if Ainsle Law Yin. Or in Midlil inn Urx i  giant  hindi arc playing ii i Dulci in his Bali room he s by ill Una err a lot of   by  is Ihm Alum. Ii m  when you look at the let suf prominent to mors who one Rodr High on Chi in nor mint Kim Iii you  see i he worry in it in l i s. Mil you  help but think in yourself i l hit in in Ihn. , or Kos you Fil Lyuu did not Lii Iii lil out  hmm the  Boom. Oills .irt1. Mil Only Lime you i it n noticed Law in innit Hirn  when Ami were  a Tuil Light Mil Yuu Al ii a l " in a " a a. 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This answer is based on a careful analysis of to  which give the Strong impression that . Business popu could nol Tump tej head to head with Wax fruit. The essential problem is illustrated by the series of fake slice of life commercials for Nissan 3 japanese . In these commercials a mandatorily incur racial group of hip Youngish California style individuals who allegedly wort for Milan sit around a table and rap about the concept of this car. It sounds like this first Young person because this is More than a car we re talking ii jul. This is. Second Young person yes. We re Laski or about human beings and ifs. Third Young person exactly. It s nut us1 transportation its you fun Row h a.  person  the Heck Are we talking Bouli of course i made this part up. There is no Normal person in this group. There Are just these unintelligible californium and every Lime i hear them i want to leap to my feet and scream 5top Over in Iann they Are actually designing and building these cars and aver Here we Din l even make coherent statements about them we also cannot Stop fretting about our business Telephone systems. Tin ii Why Ohn Naisbitt the bearded business guru who wrote the Humon Jinni Best seller a Frt rent is k receiving Large wads of dollars to appear in ii series of commercials wherein he stride purposefully through corporate offices never slowing Down for a moment while various business people lag along like Yappy Little dogs babbling breathlessly at him about their telephones Businessperson John we have a Telephone system manufactured by whatever giant International corporation is paying for this commercial Naisbitt striding Good. Where is the Bank and of course you have the in mme Ciali inhere business people gel ahead by using macintosh computers to create the ultimate american business product a really Sharp looking report. Do you see what is happening Here it used la he that the people who acted like cretins in com Mari gals were the Consumers the housewife who becomes nearly suicidal Over Kitchen odor the Man who is Rikes up conversations with near strangers about his Hemor Hoidal tissue Etc. But today we Are seeing equally ludicrous commercial behaviour from business role models. I think we need in be alarmed about this. I think we need to Lake action before our nation is destroyed by the vacuum of unemployment As the air of International Trade is pumped out of the Bell Jar of the Economy by the Tommy Longworth of foreign Competition. I think we need to change the Channel. When you Don t need assistance simply say so by miss manners l Niord future Syndicate dear miss manners i was driving to a shopping Croler in the rain when my winds iced wiper dime nut no its binding. Ii was flapping All Over my Windshield. The rain was not bad enough to obscure my vision so i turned the wipers off and drove the rest of the Way without them. When i arrived i started to Fin the wiper. A Well intentioned gentleman got Oul of his nearby car and said having rouble with your wipers i figured that he Lnch what he was doing. I had fined it myself recently so i knew How but i thought he might Brable to do it titter and better. When i saw that he was trying to Pul it Back the wrong Way. I tried to Tell him but he said it should be fasl Rord the Way he was trying to do it. He continued to struggle and again i tried of Tell him the Corr cd Way bul he was sure he was right. Finally he Well to the other Side of the Carlo Check How the Nohrr wiper was full ached. I casually slipped Ilic broken one Back on the Correct Way. I spent 10 minutes in the rain and fell behind schedule because of this non Necha Ricilly minded male. I could have done in in 30 seconds. How docs a capable woman refuse the Good bul bumbling intentions of a Man who wants to help but ends up hindering ins Cadi gentle Reader very Likely you see this jul Ilion is having to do with overthrowing the traditional male pretence to mechanical competence ii will therefore disappoint you that miss manners sees it merely As the Ordinary etiquette problem of handling an inept favor. It seems silly to accept such an offer when one is sure of Onu s Awn competence. Vou apparently did so on the notion that a Man would naturally do this better than yourself a notion of which miss manner trusts you Are now disabused. But having allowed him to help you you were bound by etiquette to seem grateful and to repair his bungling As  As you could. To refuse you need Only have smiled and said no thank you really. I be done this  dear miss manners my wife and i agree that our friends and acquaintance should Call or write before they come to visit this is not Only elementary manner bul also common sense. Paradoxically though my wife eels that of Don t have to do this and that it is great Lun to wheel into a driveway and watch or hear our friends scurrying for Robes and frantically straightening up. Feeling As we do i think thai it in especially incumbent on us to Call in Advance and consideration aside thai it i silly to drive 45 minutes to visit friends Only to Lind them not at Home. My wife tells me that in i Call the i not going. The result is that either Way one of us is unhappy and this usually escalate to both of it being unhappy. This May be trivial and i know thai you re not in the marriage counselling business bul please reply. Gentle Reader miss manners is used to hearing etiquette which is Only her life s work dismissed 34 trivial. But can you really say the same about the thought behind this determination Lodolo others what she herself finds intolerable that is quite a Nasty Little plan about watching others squirming under planned rudeness. It s a Good thing that miss manners is nol a marriage Counselor because she would be hard pressed to advise understanding and tolerance for someone who could come up with thai. As an etiquette Counselor she can Only plead that you nol participate in a rudeness compounded by fab wary is 118 it non Enugu few