European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 a the stars and stripes tuesday february 18, 1992 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers a few months ago a Friend of my wife a asked if i would help her move to a Distant City. Since i was unemployed at the time i agreed to do it for a few Hundred dollars. I was glad to pick up the extra Money and it allowed her to save More than $600 off the lowest bid by a professional mover. I broke Down the furniture loaded the truck drove it 900 Miles unloaded it and reassembled the Beds and other pieces that had been dismantled. Unfortunately along the Way i hit a steeply angled service station overhang. It had no clearance markings. After negotiations with the truck rental firm reparations were paid which came to a bit More than my fee and i ended up with nothing. I feel that my wife a Friend should have paid part of the repair Bill. After All she saved More than 40 percent on her moving costs and the damage was not the result of carelessness. Am 1 wrong to feel this Way my wife says i am. Ill respect your wishes. Either Way i done to intend to bring this matter up with the Friend. Thank you. Left holding the bag dear holding if your Friend had hired a moving company any damage incurred while transporting her Ftp mature would have been the company s liability. She wanted to save some Money and you were Happy to get the extra work but unfortunately it did no to work out very Well a today a crossword dear Abby dear Abby your advice to Force children to practice was right on the Mark. Most children hate to practice and our son and daughter were no exceptions. My husband got tired of All the fighting and crying and said Quot let them quit a its too much of a  i said Quot Over my dead body a after that there were very few arguments. Today our daughter Marylou Churchill sits principal second violin in the Boston symphony and our son Paul studied cello at new Yorkus Juilliard and toured with the Mantovani orchestra. Marian speaker san Mateo Calif. Dear Marian congratulations. Read on for More letters from parents who revised to Cave in when their children wanted to quit dear Abby in a a Mother who forced her children to practice. Why not it was for their own Good. We Force our children to take Baths Brush their Teeth eat their vegetables turn off the television and do their Homework done to we my son wanted to quit piano when he was 10. I said a no Way a you Are not quitting Quot i knew that my judgment was better than a child a. Today he is a conduct at least not for you. Your Friend is under no obligation to share in the Cost of the Accident but she might have done so had she chosen to be generous. Dear Ann Landers a. When _ my Teeth of Edge. At Home however i have music playing constantly. Its not that i am afraid of silence As your Reader suggests. I would Welcome real silence but i will never know what silence is unless i become totally deaf. Thanks to parents who did no to care where they hit me when i was a child and noisy factories where i worked my Way through College i have tinnitus. In a totally silent room the sounds m my ears Are deafening. Gentle music not television which i generally detest helps me focus my attention on what in a doing i am not looking for sympathy. In be adapted to the tinnitus and the resulting nearing impairment quite Well. I just wish that people who Are fortunate enough to have Normal hearing would have a Little More compassion for those of us who done to. L.b., Ingleside ill. Dear . There is help for you and others who suffer with this affliction. For farther information Send a postcard with your name and address to the american tinnitus association . Box a Portland Ore. 97207. C cretors Syndicate Tor and professor at the Cincinnati conservatory of music. Eileen Giovanazzi la Mesa Calif. Dear Abby i grew up in a musical family. Our parents had a very effective Way to get my brother and me to practice. We were told a either you do the dishes a or practice a so my brother and i practice a lot. In be been playing the piano for 35 years and today my brother is an accomplished guitarist. Mark Allen Don itch san Rafael Calif. Dear Abby i am a girl in the seventh Grade. In be been taking piano since first Grade. In be never liked practising and never will. There were lots of fights about practising and i always ended up living. My Mother threatened to Stop the lessons but in a glad she never did. I still hate to practice but i love to play. A girl in Springfield a. Dear Abby years ago we lived across the Street from a music Loving italian family in London Ontario. There were four sons and one daughter. I can still see the Mother chasing her kids with a Hickory stick trying to get them to go take their music lessons. Their last name was Lombardo which May ring a Bell with your older readers. . Calhoun Clearwater Fla. 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