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wV*' O Page Two THE CUNTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1M9 A NICE' By RUBY GREENE, in Kiwanis Magazine If you ignore the unobtrusive people who don't demand cour tesy, they will walk out quietly and never come back again I’m a nice customer. You all know, able to mo when I do. Life is short— too short for indulging in these un pleasant little scrimmages for the sake oT a dollar. . Once when 1 took a dress back to a store where I bought’most of my clothes. Before I had ever had a chance to wear it, the color had fad ed all out of it so it was pink instead of blue. The lady who owned the >*tore was so nasty, I felt like apolo- , timid, polite little person, I can be pretty devastating, can’t I? I don’t care what business you're in. Maybe you live in a different town, maybe I’ve never heard of you, but if you’re going broke maybe there’re enough people like me who do know you. Together, we do you out of mil lions every year, we make you fold the bacon. Place a piece of brightly- colored jelly in the peach just be fore serving. These make a plate of fried or scrambled eggs look like an elegant dish. Saute 1 h cups of shrimps in but- 1 ter with a few fi-esh, sliced mush rooms, chopped green pepper and celery. Place in individual casseroles and top with cheese sauce. Bake for 1 asaqmmiiiihnmnnunwiiMnihmin iniimwiwiiiwiwiww H me. I'm the one who never , com plains no matter what kind of ser vice I g£t. I'll go in a restaurant and I’ll sit and S:t while the waitress gossips with her boy friend and never both er.- to look and see if my hambur ger is ready to go. Sometimes a party who came" in after I did gets my The she , , could hamburger, but I don t say a word. sot fault. I had him, it m complain: when he girl te.U me , h lastewd “Oh, Im sorry. Ill order another ? whkh camcd a ch ^ ieal re . for you. Cereals which lose their crispness in humid summer weather should I just wait. the soup is cold, or the cream for the coffee is sour, whatever hap pens, I try to be nice about it. It’s the same when I go to a store to buy something. I don't throw my weight around I try to be thought ful of .the other person. If I get a snooty salesgirl who gets nettled be cause I want to look at several things before I make up my mind. I'm po lite as can be. I don’t believe rude ness in return is the answer. You might sav I wasn't raised that way. action, which caused the fading. My fault for hanging my clothes up! So, I had it dyed black, after which it was too small fpr me, but my young er sister appreciated it. Not long after this I bought a toaster that burned out two weeks after I had it. I certainly hated to take it back but I thought maybe they would know where to send it and I could pay for having it re paired. But I didn't even get a chance to tell them this. They were so busy telling me I had burned it I couldn't think of up. and sometimes we’re responsiblflLjgr minutes in a moderate oven, and for names in the obituary column.' vou W iu have a nice supper dish. Some take that way out when they ' Add a dash of cinnamon to go bankrupt. : whipped cream before serving over Did I say I was "nice’ ? Oh, I m puddings or apple pie for a' subtle sorry. It’s all my fault. I should flavor touch, have told you in the first place I’m really not nice at all. Devastating, deadly and ghoulish, thafi me. b( , stored in a cool place iff alrti j ht — Itf* V*" j ars - To crisp the cereal before I I J 'serving, place on a shallow baking ■ J y* pan in a moderate oven for 5 min- A Rl n utes - c ° o1 before serving. Stains are easily removed from linoleum by rubbing lightly with I steel wool before washing. RECIPE OF THE WEEK AND HOME An easy dessert uses peach halves filled with a small scoop of ice cream, a covering of meringue which is then browned quickly under the broiler and served on slices of sponge cake. Add a spoonful of horseradish to sour cream and serve over green beans if you want a real treat in 1 the vegetable line. Appetizer Salad (serves 6) 2 pears, peeled and sectioned IVj cups grapes, halved and seeded */2 cup maraschino cherries, halved Salad greens Vi cup French dressing *•4 cup mayonnaise Arrange fruits in sherbert glass es, and serve with French dressing The diner dav I took a parr of hose ou: on P ur P ose 1 couldn t think ot What can you do with those green m j xed together with mayonnaise. Vi k tc i vore 1 had bought tVee an >’thing to do but leave. I smiled tomatoes. Slice them thick, sp^inkje Q arn j s j 1 w jth salad greens. ® cM-ootiv coin •niwShvo’'’ with sugar, salt and pepper and fry. . A few minutes before serving, pour soured cream over them and cook DEAN’S LIST until cream is heated. Here’s a vege- Miss Eugenia Neighbors, a sopho- table that is a special treat with more at Furman university, was I steak. i among students on the dean’s list pairs in the box. but one pair had a run- in them Of course it was my Vu’.t. ns the girl so crossly told me. I hadn't examined them before I left •he -tore Even though I hadn't tried or. one stocking out of the box. I ..gree t was my fault. I had been in a hurry the day I bought them. I ri.dn't make a fuss about it. I just decided t > take the loss myself. sweetly and said "Goodbye! I never kick. I never nag, I never criticize and I wouldn't’ dream of making a scene, as I"ve seen people doing in public places. I think that’s awful. No. I’m the nice customer. And I'll tell you what else I am. I'm the customer who never comes back. That's my little revenge for get to a store, anyway I’ve found peo p.e are just about always disagree- It's seldom I take anything back ting pushed around too much. That s why I take whatever you hand out, because I know I'm not coming back. I: "s true that this way doesn’t relieve my feelings right off. as telling you what I think of you would; but in the long run, it's a far more deadly rev enge than blowing my top would oe. In fact, a nice customer like my self, multiplied by others of my kind,' can just about ruin a business. And there's a lot of nice people in the world, just like me. When we get pushed far enough, we go on down 1 tne street to another store and eat hamburgers in places where they’re smart enough to hire help who ap-j predate nice customers. He laughs best, they say. whoj: laughs last. 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