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Paee 3 - PLVINDEAI ERHERALD. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22,19#5 Dick Peterson •, m Drinking glasses nearly a disposable item in this house We're down to three drinking glasses at home. Again. I'm sure we'll get another set of glasses, and within a week we will have a set of glasses less one. Within a couple months we will have three glasses. Yet again. It's one of those vicious circles you hear about. You'd like to think it only happens to the other guy, but it always happens to you. I nave a long history of glass breaking, vou see. When T was a child, I probably broke a lot of things. Of the rubble I have created, that of glass is the only I can recall. lUe impression that stays with me comes from the dinner table where I occassionally broke glasses or simply spilled glassfuls of milk. As far as parental displeasure is con- . cerned, they are equal transgressions. The inference I drew from the ensuing chastisement was that I was the only person - possibly in the history of mankind - who ever upset a glass at the dinner table. Over the years I've probably broken hundreds of drinking glasses, a healthy quantity of window glass and several pairs of eye glasses. I try not to handle mirrors, what with the bad luck that follows. The gods need not be tested. Being that no one admits they break drinking glasses - it's a shameful thing - I still tnink I'm about the only one who breaks them. I know that's naive and that Freud probably could explain it, but that's what I think. And it's catchy, like colds. Soon after we were married my wife broke my eye glasses. Then she started breaking an occassional drinking glass, which were wedding gifts by the way. With glass, it's the thought that counts sooner or later. Elsa probably became nervous watching me handle glassware, and that nervousness caused her to break them. Now, I think she breaks more glasses than I do. Of course, that may be because she washes the dishes more than I do. I hesitate to wash them because of an old hand injury, which was caused by a glass I was washing years ago. It broke fomy hand, and I'll have that scar at the base of my right index finger for the rest of my life. (You've heard that old injuries end football careers. Do you think old dish washers just give up and quit for no reason? It may not be as glamorous as playing in the Super Bowl, but the job dish washers perform is one of the most basic and important in our society. We don't hang up the wash rag easily.) We're now in our second year of marriage and fourth set of glasses. That's not to mention our third set of din- nerware. We've got china, but that's safely stored away in boxes in the back of the closet. If I were to have my way, the china would stay in the boxes in the closet. For sentimental reasons, it can't be sold. I can live with that scar on my right index finger, but there is no way I will be able to live with the guilt of breaking the first piece of china. It's as good as dust if I touch it. Believe me. I'd like to think one could buy a set of drinking glasses and have tt$ejaM°i*ye*rs if not forever7Af least more than three months! Plastic glasses aren't any better than glass glasses. It's more challenging but the hard-plastic type break, and the mutt puppy eats the soft-plastic type. It just ate one of our back-up plastic glasses the other day. At any rate, I'm an adult so I should drink out of glass glasses. Plastic is for kids, just like the table in the other room at Christmas dinner is for the kids. Drinking from plastic glasses just isn't the same. Liquids don't taste as good and plastic feels funny on your lips for some reason. I'd like to think this broken-glass circle could be broken. If we assume the Peterson household isn't the only one in the country that breaks glasses, that there are millions of others out there, couldn't we also assume that someone could develop an unbreakable glass? Something even Ella Fitzgerald couldn't break. Something that would cause people to ask: Is it glass or is it Plexiglas? Dance to support American Indians : The Mascoutin Society of Chicagoland, a non-profit corporation which supports the American Indian, will hold its ;27th annual winter dance beginning at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 23, at Huntley Elementary School, Route 47 and Mill Street. The event will feature traders with Indian-made goods. s § o L J&M Transmissions, Inc. 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Company 1 firefighters were alerted shortly before 9 a.m. that fire had broken out at the Charles Prickett residence, 1703 Beach, McHenry. The fire was brought under control within five minutes after the first trucks arrived, ac­ cording to Dep. Chief Chris Bennett. Joyce Prickett sustained a minor burn and no other injuries were reported, Bennett said. The fire apparently started in a bedroom and spread to the kitchen and living room areas. The initial cause of the blaze is under investigation. Just before 1:30 p.m., the department was again called to the residence when a hot spot rekindled. Artists accepted for crafts fair Several McHenry County residents will be among over 600 craftsmen from across the nation participating in Craft Fair USA, March £-10 at Wisconsin State Fair Park in Milwaukee. Leonard Wilson of McHenry will be displaying bevel glass. Other McHenry County residents who will participate include: Mark Schoepke of Crystal Lake, photography; David Landwehr of Marengo, woodburning and Dorine Damm of Mi rengo, claytoons. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, March 8 and 9, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 10. For information call (414) 321-4566. L.JL f'i k f Company 1 firefighters begin cleanup after they extinguished a fire that Plalndealer Herald photo by Anthony Oliver operations Wednesday morning at a home in Lakeland Park. broke out .'-V- "v MS SEMINAR "Adjustment and Personal Growth," an eight-week seminar for persons newly- diagnosed or mildly affected with multiple sclerosis, will begin Tuesday, March 5 at the Chicago-Northern Illinois Chapter. National Multiple Sclerosis Society, in Chicago. Seminar hours are 7 to 9 p.m. The cost is $15 for one set of materials. To register for the seminar, call the MS Chapter's Community Services Depart­ ment on or before March 1 at (312 ) 922-8000 or 1-800-2-HELP MS. 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