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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday October 27, 1999 Halloween excursion successful by. To watch this most entertaining (Continued from page A7) they had me pegged for what I was: an spectacle. "Oh, no, I'm just fine," I said, smil absolute idiot in a lumber store. They pointed to a row of wood. ing through my gritted teeth. No way Among all the wood - at $46 a piece - 1 was I going to have to ask for help from began to wonder about this $3 piece of either the nice man or my son, now wood that was supposed to just leap out watching keenly. "Just fine, just fine." off the shelf and onto a cart. I wandered I'm waving him on, thinking frantical through the tiny aisles full of other lum ly: now what? Bungy cords? Rope? , ber-seeking people. They all looked far Duct tape? He shouted from his truck that more earnest about their wood. In a corner, I found what I wanted - double maybe I could try the side doors. I said what I was told I'd have to pay. But thank you there's no need. By then, what the heck, chalk it up to another one of the four men in the line behind me joined the nice man by his truck. In elevating Halloween experience. Problem was, it didn't fit. No way. five minutes, I'd have the whole lum The lumber store guy had warned me. ber yard out there talking to me about But no, I blithely picked up that piece quarter-inch maple sidings or some of wood and carried it out the door, thing. Nice people, to be sure. But I'd without a care. I have a station wagon, go mad, I just knew it. And then it dawned on me. you know, I said to him. "Oh, you know what," I said as He just smiled back as if to say, okay lady, good luck. And that's why I was though I had planned this all along., out there in the parking lot, my son "I'll just go get them to cut it for me." The nice man nodded, as if he won immersed in a Calvin and Hdbbes car toon book,.while I quite literally tried to dered just when I would get around to bend the wood to fit the trunk. This is thinking about it. His only comment: not exactly the best approach when it "M ost car manufacturers make sure you can get a 4 X 8 into the trunk." comes to wood. What a kind man. I mean, you just That's when I realized how foolish I looked - a woman in a hat and scarf try don't get enough of these random acts ing frantically to bend a piece of wood of kindness do you? Anyway, the wood was cut and my job was done. I too large for a car. Imagine. The m athem atically challenged returned home, triumphant. On Halloween night, all the goblins among us will sympathize I am sure. But I was determined. The smile never and ghosts and Star Wars freaks will left my face. It was as though I did this have to make their way past where every Sunday afternoon in parking lots M.T. Head lies dead and where Dale Tate was hung by mistake, past the in lumber yards everywhere. 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