European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday August 25, 1994 anyone for a few geography lessons dear readers i am on vacation but i have Eft behind some of my favorite columns that you May have missed the firs time around. I Hope you enjoy them. Ann Landers dear Ann Landers this is for the Canadian who was upset because so Many ignoramuses in the United states knew nothing about Canada. He said people in Alabama thought canadians were almost the same As eskimos we live in Des Moines. Whence travelled East a few years ago we were appalled at the number of people who had never heard of Iowa. They did t know that Iowa is a great agricultural Staje that Herbert Hoover was born there or that George Washington Carver the great african american scientist was educated there. A new England woman asked my wife where we wherefrom. When my wife said Iowa the Connecticut Yankee replied crisply we pronounce it Ohio in this part of the How do you like that Ann Cornfield readers dear Corn i love it and by the Way when you compile your list Ann Landers of Lowans Don t forget dear Abby and me. We we reborn in Sioux City. Dear Ann Landers you be printed a lot of letters about rude salespeople. Having been a clerk in a supermarket for 10 years i have drawn up a list of helpful hints tomake shopping More enjoyable for everyone. Don t use a Basket. Rush to the checkout line with your arms loaded with groceries and ask if you can go ahead of the others because you Are dropping will feel sorry for you and say yes. When there s a big order just ahead of you put your few items on the Belt and get them mixed in wit the other order. The checker won t mind re figuring after she s rung them All up together. It Breaks up the Monotony of her Day. After your bag is packed full with All the cans on the Bottom ask the checker if she would mind fishing out that can of Coffee at the Bottom and putting it in separate bag because it s for your sister. Wait until the checker has 97 cents Worth of change and a few Bills in her hand and then Tell her you just happen to have a Load of pennies you want to get rid of. Wait until All the groceries Are rung up and then Start digging in your purse for your Check Book and pen Veteran of supermarket tangles dear vet while your letter might be amusing to Many i can see Why checkout people grow old before their time. Letters to Ann Landers should be addressed to her at . Box 11562, Chi Cago Iii. 60611-0562., c creators Syndicate travelling with kids can be quite a trip editor s note dear Abby is on a two week Vaca Tion. Following is a selection of some of her favorite past letters from the Early 1970s. Dear Abby already i am worried about our next summer Vaca Tion. My husband gets three weeks off and he wants to take me and the children on a picture taking trip to the Western Parks Region As he is a camera Buff. Our children Are 7 and 10, and they do not get along wit each other so you can imagine what an automobile trip with them is like for three weeks. I realize that my husband works hard All year and de serves the kind of vacation he enjoys but i Don t relish the idea of being referee for the kids while father pursues his Hobby which involves looking for places to photo graph and endless waiting for perfect Sun directions. Planning ahead dear planning Why not Compromise and spend part of your Vaca quibble dear Abby Tion doing his thing and the other part doing whatever1 you prefer a suggestion on Long motor trips with kids who Don t get along instead of putting them both in the Back seat let one sit in front with dad and keep the other in the Back with you. Then switch. Dear Abby Why is it that when a woman announces that she is pregnant All the other women in the company immediately Start to rehash their own pregnancies invariably they All had a very hard time delivering and one keeps trying to top the other with tales of How Long she was in labor Etc. My wife is four months pregnant and she has t had one sick Day but All the talk about rough delivering has scared her half to death. What s wrong with some women peeved in Maryville Tenn. Dear peeved All right it s done. Perhaps some of those hens Are Only looking longingly Back on their laying Days. Letters for this column should be addressed to dear Abby at . Box 447, mount Morris 111,61054. 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