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WfflTY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1989, PAGE 5 rYou've seen them in supermarkets. They thrive in discount stores. They lurk around the corner of every transaction, threatening your belief in the human -race. You've been ignored by them in gas bars, frozen out by them in turnstiles and lost out to a boy friend at a convenience store. They are the army of the living stunned. Their greatest feat of the century came from a supermarket checkout clerk who managed to process an entire $265 order without once making eye contact with thé customer.- ail the whilei-carrying on a conversation with the girl in the next 1 checkout booth,' snapping bubblegum while doing it. I suppose we've ail been on the receiving end at one time or another. But then along cornes someone who proves that humanity still eista. It happened on a Sunday. I arn installing a set of horizontal bli nd in a kitchen. I dril four neat holes, in the door - then discover the door is metal. For those not of the mechanical bent let me assure you: the wood screws supplied with pretty blue blinde will not screw into metal. You need metal screws. Ites Sunday, remember? Everyone knows metal screw stores are closed on Sunday. So after returning The Sword and the Stone for the fourteenth time this suxnmer, ta the video store near Nanny's bouse, I try four variety stores. Wood screws yes; metal screws, no. Then I turn into Hy and Zel's. (Quick aside ta, the editor. can we mention a specific store in a foreign city like' Oshawa? If not, I can refer ta, it as a high volume discount cuin variety store in a neighboring usually heartless city.) I find thepackage I want: thirteen screws for $1.19. Well, I only need four screws. But that's how the old Visiting sharpened The Sunnycrest Nursing Home pastoral care committee will hold, a half.day seminar,1 'Skills in Visiting the ElIderly,' on Thurs- day, Sept. 14, 9 alm. to 1 p.m. The seminanr will be held at Sunnycrest Villa, 1635 Dundas St. E., Whitby. Guest speaker is R1ev. Albert A. Reveil of York-Simcoe Minis- tries. Discussion will be held on skills in visiting the elderly un- responsive and dying, and on facilitative techniques. Registration wiIl be held at 8:30 a.m. Ç9st for the seminar will be donations given at the door. To register call 576-0111 or 686-1061 by Sept. 12. Anyone interested is invited to attend. 'Cheqiung' A 5-year-old 'girl last week found a missing $1,762 cheque in Port Whitby. On Friday, Stephanie McQuil- Ian was collectin g empty beer cans from garbage bina when she discovered the cheque, made out by a Brooklin resident as pay- ment to a marine service com- pane turned the chaque ovar to Whitby marina manager Bill Smith who notifiad the owner. Break-ms at storage unit s Durham Regional Police are unsure what has been stolen from five storage units at 2001 Victoria St. E. aftar a break-in on the weekand. Police have not been able to notify ail the owners. Barbed wire was cut to gain accass ta the units. Make it your business, EVERY WEEK Goa- 4G IL ILJx !Y WITH OUR FEET UP by Bill Swan tool box get~ laden down ith things you nevor use. To-the ch kout Igowitlmy purchasceý "TatIll be $1.29, idir," sa~r the young clerk. I assume she is sixteen, seventeen ye is old, but I don't make my living on the CNE midway guessing ages. She doesn't smile. That doesn't surprise me. Few do. I suppose if I were woring Sundays I might not smile either. "A dollar twenty nine," I repeat. It's a habit I have that makes me sound as though I have lost a few marbles, that things aren't sparking off the grey ceils just right. "Yes," the girl replies. I begin counting out the change and begin ta appreciate her patience. I have seen nothing yet. "Okay, there's one dollar," I say as I hand her a bull. "And fifteen, sixteen, seventeen cents." Her patience is golden. "You're not going ta believe this," I say. The clerk says nothing. 'Pm twelve cents short." Her look says, yes, mathematically you)re right on. "Twelve cents,' I repeat. 'Well, look. I guesa l'il have ta put this back. Or lMi go out to my car, that's what, wait right here..." The clerk smiles, holds out a hand as though admonishing a, toddler. "Just a minute.' She reachesý under the counter, pulls out a plastic bag, the kind they use in stores ta stuif the stuif in you ve just bought. The bag is from another store. Her hand dives into the bag, rattles for a second, and emerges. "There," she says. A digne and two cents îdrop into my hand. "But ..." "Take it," she says, smiling. flnnfounded. I accept. PIcing up my purchase, I turn back. "But whSe ..." 'Mine," she says. "Have a good day now."f ,Weil - .I .. I pause. "Thanksý." lezaym." Still dufounded, I leave the store without getting her nane. So if you're reading this, young woman, thanlçs again. Thanka for taldng pity on a guy who forgets bis pocket change. You bad no need ta even consider it, and no doubt your workiuntes and even your boss may tel you it was a dumb thing to do. Don't believe them. The only dumb thing about it was the guy who forgot bis pocket change. And I know you cant have pity on al the dunib people you will meet working one Sunday shift; there are just too many. And I don't expect you ta go throwing twelve cents at every dumb customer who cornes along. But anyone can be nice ta friends. An act ofkidndness ta a stranger has a special ring. So from this one, again, thanks. I owe you. 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