'I Things I don'tlike: People who park across the sidewalk because five cars won't fit in the driveway -and block the passage of baby strollers and tricycles.-. 1 Teenagers who hang out in parks after dark and twirl the -swing sets, chains and all, around and around the cross bar until only a giant can untangle it. To see otherwise intelligent, witty, attractive eirls and young women smoking cigarets -or anything else. The truth is, perfume or not, smoke stinks. Gravel on my lawn. I know, I know: I put it there last win- ter when shovelling the driveway. That doesn't mean I have to like it. Drivers who cut diagonally across supermarket parking lots. Their speed is usually intimidating, but worse is their unpredictabiity. They come at you from all angles. Other drivers (who knows? -maybe the same ones) -who empty ashtrays on the road while stopped at traffic lights. Computers that beat me atchess. Easily. Drivers who park at the curb lane in front of the con- venience store when there are plenty of parking spaces twentyfeetaway. Running out of windshield"washer fluid during a light rainonHighway4ol. Dogs that pee on rugs for revenge. Cats that claw furniture. Veterinarian bils. Has the government no sense of priorities that vets haven't been nationalized? (PETHIP). Supermarket clerks who carry on a conversation with the clerk ini the next aisle while checking out your groceries. Especially when they wear a button: "Our Customers Are Tops. " This customer is peed off , for sure. Making out income tax. IWITH OUR FEET. UP by Bill Swan T hings I don't like Dogs. Students who can't figure out why teachers tryto insist that they come to class. Fancy $80 running shoes that give me a pain in the side of the knee before they're hardly even broken in. Cigaret butts in drinking fountains. Cigaret butts on floors of hallways in public buildings. Correction. Cigaret butts on floors in any buildings. Smokers who grind out cigaret with their feet on floors anywhere. Smoke. Cigaret butts. People who bitch and complain -and do nothing to correct the situation that bothers them. .Service stations that forget to replace your gas cap -and then can'tfind it when you finally track them down. Neckties that cost upwarIs of $20, andl then promptly turn around and begin unravelling at the seams. Can't those machines sew? Speed traps. Arguing with a two-year-old -and losing. Arguing with a two-year-old -and winning. People who don't return phone calls. Returning phone calls. People, especially in the media, who complain about the postal service. 1Iget my bills plenty fast enough, thank you. Bill Vander Zalm's politics. Passengers in my car who think it necessary to tell when traffic lights have changed to greený and who climb under the dash screaming screams over tr'affic hazards I noticed two minutes ago. Those kind, gentie folk who phone to ask me if our rug needs cleaning. Sure it does -but lil cail you when we're ready. V'Il change my mmnd when.I find one who can get out Javexstains. The heel of Fortune. Yuppies who spends thousands decorating their -kids' rooms "because we live in an affluent neighborhood and kids notice things like that." Parents who drive without youngstrs restrained by seat beits. Anyone with one single answer to the world's problems, and neither the wit nor grace to recognize that other people have answers just as pertinent -even if they disagree. Anyone who complains about politicians. Politicians we elect because they tell us what we want to hear. Thus they are a true reflection of us. Bellyache about politicians, buddy, and you're bellyachin' about all of us. Columnists who produce long lists of cuté but not necessarily funny stuff . Whitby council also give s support to PACT request -By Mike Johnston. By a recorded vote of 4-2, Whiùtby council will ask the Region of Durhamn to rescind its 1985 motion that allowed Metro- polita n Toronto te, dump its garbage in the Region, even though the Region turned down similar motions from Ajax, Pickering and Newcastle Iast week. Councillors Joe Bugelli, Ross Batten, Marcel Brunelle and Tom Edwards voted in favor of the motion while Mayor Bob Attersley and councillor Joe Driùmm opposed it. The request for council's appro- val came fronv PACT (Picker- ing-Ajax Citizens Together for the Environment.) In opposing the motion, as he did at the regional council meeting last week, Attersley said any councillors who support the Region telling Metro te get out, are supporting a 7.5-per cent tax hike for Whitby taxpayers. He was referring to a Metro council decision on whether or not Arnold chosen as dfrector of centre- Dr. Kathleen Moorcroft, president of the Distress Centre of Durham Region, has announced the selection of Margaret Arnold as executive director. A Durham College graduate, Ar- nold has been with the centre for seven years as co-ordinator. UPHOLSTERY & REFINISHING have now relocated to 1513 Brook St. N. Unit 1, Whitbv1 *ANTIQUES RESTORED 9CUSTOMf UPHOLSTERY 1 *NO-DIP STRIPPING oREPAIRS *REFINISHING A large select ion o f Victorian parlour f urniture aval lable 668-5481 to allow a $28 rebate per tonne of garbage for Durhamn municipal- ities using the Brock West landfil site. Metro politicians have yet te make that decision. But according te Attersley, if they turn down the rebate, it will cost Whitby taxpayers $400,000 more to dump their garbage this year and a further $700,000 next year. Attersley said region munici- palities wouldl not' receive the rebate if Region council was te, accept the motion. "Let's leave aIl the options open. The Province should be responsible for this. It's time they stepped in. By doing this (passing the motion), it is just burying our head in the sand," said Attersley. But the motion's most vocal supporter, Tom Edwards, disa- greed. "I hope no one will be sucked in by that development," said Edwards, referring te, Metro's upcoming decision. "Don't be hike the Region, afraid of what Metro will do," Edwards told Whitby councillors. Hie said it would be cheaper for the Region te go on its own in finding a dump site. But Drumm, who opposed the motion, said the Region is only carrying out its first duty of f"protecting the taxpayers and making sure there is a place to dump garbage in the short'term. "If in the short term, Metro finds a dump outside the Regior and says Durham can't dumç there, what then?" said Drumm. I won't support this. We have to keep ail our options, open," hc said, adding he was in favor of the Region looldng for its owr dump in the long term. Brunelle said he supported the. motion because it says the Region should develop its own dump in the long term, but in the short term, the Region will allow dumping in its borders. =--' 1 - . 1 , ow WITBY FRlEE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1988, PAGE 5