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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981.
SHIRLEY LOWE and Ses
TAKING A LIGHT-HEARTED LOOK AT ONE OF MOTORING'S HAZARDS
Do your
kids take you for a ride?
THE
THE man with a child in his car is a driver at a disadvantage. Watch
out for him, for certainly he has very little opportunity to watch. out for you. He cannot see out of his rear window because it has been breathed on for noughts and crosses and pictures of pin men.
He cannot see out of his front window because someone has let a balloon loose1 around his head. He cannot see through his driving mirror because every now and again a small figure boba up and down on the back seat, effectively obscuring it.
Added to that he is drivlug
with
land to ward of a
led wine gums, doing a bet- ter diamantling Job than any Breaker's yard,
water-pistol with the other and,imming the windows with con- if he cant see nut of any of his windows, lut is not watching the sascoming trafle but looking for petrol pumps, or cows, og sleum traits.
Be sure and his wife will be the only two in the car com- petitively enunting petrol numps. for cows, or steam trains,
hildren
LOOK MUM!
Counting objects is just one The of the many things that don'i will be far too busy keep children quiet an long car riding through the ashtrays. Journeys,
HAMILTON
Picture books don't either. Nor Nor, collecting number plates. for that matter, does a great hig overdose of Junior Aspirin, This only seems to put the child on his mettle.
("FOL TOD
asleep, mumSLINIŲ, I'm not even tired. Look. I can climb over the back seal on to your knee while daddy's doing 90!")
lose the key, though, or you may And yourself locked in the car with the children. An alarming alternative to their falling out.
They can Autter him into overtaking a Mercedes on a hi ("You're not going to jel that
CHILD
porty Witle enz get in front of you, are you?") as effectively as the team mannger rallying a racing motorist from the pit,
But Ove minutes before you shops selling Azzy lemonade, arrive horar he'll fall into a hot-dogs stunds, felds with cows
When they are very, young
very conia all over you, which means to pat or blackberries to pick,
rattle their
they can surreptitiously that you either have to resign public lavatories and other destr
blankets of their carry-cot and Fatties under the yourself to spending the night ble stopping places, sliting bolt upright in the car
muke I sound like your big end But don't think that because outside your front gate, or wake
When te hands are not
going. him
tied you've got them tenrs and wrapped around a hot dog or strapped down children can't up and tace
in or tantrums
and the reproachful ice cream cone, they are invart sabotage a journey. They know fails, they have a trump card And, when everything else slares of your neighbours, ably plucking at the door handle, how to wreck the nerves of even they play again and again with
so it's well to make sure that the most pincid driver..
consumimate" by a
skill: "I think, children quiet in u car is in slon your child is safely bolted in well-timed" "Watch out?" when says the quiet, good little girl
The only way to keep
the car and let them get out.
before you slari. Safely belts
to be sick!"
are not good idea for under they want to do is draw his In the corner, that I am going This completely cuts out such 10-year-olds. (Something to do attention to a toyshop window, masculine pleasures as making with their heads being len heavy
BISCUITS
Le Touquel to Nice in the same for their bodies.) day, but, by driving far too fast in between, it is possible to slop at least six times on a four- to-five-hour Journey, and still keep up an average speed of around 30 miles an hour.
ICE CREAM
The somewhat unusual com- bination of speed with children is possible in this case, because the children are kept busy watching for Ice-cream stalls,
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
• BY .
THE WAY
by Beachcomber
But they are excellent for an- choring an active teenager. Small chairs which hook on the. back of the seat are penetient THE gentleman who "puts his houses and shops; in fact a good for a baby, particularly if they hat in the refrigerator in hot example of a bullt-up area. The have a tray so he can crumble weather" has the right idea. cars are driven at any speed the blicuits on It instead of on you. What's good enough for food Is driver pleases, There are no
good enough for a hat.
Toy steering wheels that suc- than on to the dashboard (and leave a nasty mark when they suction off do net as a buffer If a toddler falls forward, but also act as an Irritant to the
driver.
If the realistic little horn doesn't floor him, the moment
A cool bond is needed
I hope that when busine99.
traffic lights, no pedestrian crossings, Sametimes a car slows for down to permit a child or
he cripple to cross. Motorists are the only people privileged to get a taw changed by breaking it.
goes out to lunch in winter he asks, the cloak-room allendent to chambrer his hat-unless he hes an electric lining to it. Mathematics at Narkover
It should now be announced that there is no such thing as a built-up area. With alarming frankness it is admitted that tho THE head master of Narkover 30 miles an hour limit is "a commented оп the cause of irritation to motorists'I protest of another schoolmaster My exclamation mark. against the opening of a betting
hos
shop a quarter of a mile from
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his school. Sald Dr Smart- Chez Slopcorner Allick: "I approve this protest.
Betting shops should be more CAID Mr Slopcorner to Mrs conveniently situated. Our Slopcorner,
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wonder,
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(6153)
Here is a position from actual play, won by J. F. Adama Worcester Park). White to more and win.
Low" Beyra Terplos.
seventeen betting shops, which bearing in mind that this man we calt sports centres in Suet may one day propose deference to the Governors of our Mimsie, whether he believes the school, are bang in the LTA long engagements?" "No- when the child leans forward to middle of the school buildings, body," replied Mrs Siopcorner, Two are annexes to form rooms, grab the gears will,
"can say that she has led hlin Ankl our senlor mathematics on." "Only once." cold the master has sublet a whole floor proud father, "when, no che of his house for this purpose, admits, she let the Mayor of Beye can learn
more about Snadgehurst kiss her at the fete, mathematics by betting than by to make Suet jealous, All Suet any other method of fuition."
SABOTAGE
Best bet of all is to at a safety catch to the lock, This costs a minimum of 13s., and makes the | door completely unopenable un- less you turn a key arst. Don't
Forging ahead
KNOW lang stretch of roud, Jined un each side with
sald was, "That was very nico of the mayor.' As for leading try him on, she might as well to lead on a stuffed mackerel."
--¿London Exptaxa Serolca),
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