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me and go through the whole story a third time. Naturally he was rather surprised that I was driving the coach all by myself and when he saw the big motorcycle on the front end he really was taken aback! I figured that I had better give some reason for being alone so I told him that my husband had to fly ahead on business and I was going to meet him in San Antonio. Naturally the motor cycle had to come off the front end so I had to tell the fellows just how it was done. I explained that I had helped my husband many times with it. The machine is much too big to just pick up and set it down on the ground so it must be run down on a ramp. After they got it off I went in the motor home and read a book. Like all women, I'm not interested in how it's fixed, just so long as they fix it. The service manager came to the door and asked me for the warranty card. I looked through the folder and couldn't find it. He said that maybe my hus- band had it in his wallet. I told him, “not that dummy"! He really got a surprised look on his face. All that was wrong with the conditioner was that a hose had pulled loose so they were able to fix it quickly. I then had to supervise putting the motorcycle back in place. Two rather young fellows were working on it and one asked me if I could drive it. I told him OF COURSE I could and did. They were very impressed. After the bike was back on and I was ready to leave I gave one of the boys a tip. I told him it was for above and beyond the call of duty. He said, “Gee, lady, thanks a lot. This is the first tip I have gotten all summer." They wished me luck and waved as I drove out of the shop.

I had a terrible headache from the heat so I stopped at a plaza to get some pills. I picked up a tube of lipstick and the aspirin and went to the express line. There was one person in front of me and it took the clerk about five minutes to complete the transaction. By the time I got to the counter I was rather upset with the clerk. I handed him the two items and as I did so, I noticed that the lipstick wasn't priced. I didn't want to wait around while he called back for a price check so I told him to set it aside. He then opened up the cash register and pulled out a small bag and poured out loose dimes and started to count them very slowly. I slid the aspirin under his hand and said, “you can set these aside to." Then I walked out of the store. I really was burned, I then went to another store and got my pills. By this time I hadn't too far to go but I had to stop and fill the gas tanks again. I stopped at a nice station and told him not to overfill the tanks because the gas would just come out of the overflow tubes. The at- tendant was really cute looking. He was about 35, roly-poly with a little beard. He had a short brim hat pulled down all the way around, with a pair of big sad brown eyes peering up at me. He was of Mexican extrac- tion and just what you would a expect a Mexican to act and look like. 1

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