April 6, 2011
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by Michele Harvey
Some Things That Irritate Me
Tonight I tried cooking dinner with my undivided attention. Didn't
happen. In twenty minutes, I answered the telephone five times. I
£ocafcE,.v. continued answering the telephone because it may have been a call
I wanted to receive. Perhaps one of my family members was calling.
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The first college basketball game using five-player teams took place
in Iowa City, Iowa on Jan. 16, 1896. The University of Chicago defeated
the University of Iowa 15-12.
Artist Of
n Library
Renee Fredricks Is The
The Month At The Julia
Renee and her husband moved
to Warner Springs from Cardiff-
by-the-Sea seven years ago
following their retirement from 25
years of owning and operating an
electrical contracting business
and raising three children.
Renee soon became enthralled
with the beautiful back country
and its animals, tractors, quaint
churches, old buildings, barns,
and serene landscapes. It was
such different scenery from the
coastal area she had known and
also loved.
Renee hadn't done much in art
since high school where, many
years ago, she had taken and
enjoyed art classes, but the back country inspired her to begin taking
watercolor and oil painting classes from local instructors, Carol Ravy,
Cindy Triplett, Stan Goudy, and Judi Doxey. This has rekindled her
passion for making art.
"There's always something new to learn, to see and to imagine,"
says Renee, and she finds a way to express her changing vision
through art.
Instead of hearing from someone I would like to have talked with; I
received five unsolicited telephone calls.
Once we began to eat dinner the telephone rang four more times.
More unsolicited telephone calls. In the space of an hour, we received
nine phone calls from the time I began cooking scrambled eggs and
biscuits until we finished eating. Yes, they were very irritating. And
no; I didn't answer any of the rings while we ate dinner. In years past;
I felt like telling those people to get a real job. In today's economy;
they may feel lucky to have those jobs of calling people during dinner
time. That doesn't make them less irritating.
How about when people say "Not to mention" and they just
mentioned whatever it was. Those kinds of sentences really bother
me. I admit that I seem to get irritated much more easily since I
quit smoking ten months ago. I also decided that when I passed my
sixtieth birthday last November, I just wouldn't be as nice about some
things as I always thought I needed to be.
Sometimes when people talk and continually say "You know", I say,
"No I don't know". I realize that I'm being ornery when I do this.
Sometimes I don't feel real polite. You know?
"More better" is another phrase that irritates lots of people. In grade
school, I was taught "Good, better, best". We never heard "more
better" because "more better" is actually the same as saying best. At
least I think so.
None of this has anything to do with how many years we've spent in
school. It's all about paying attention to what we say. Arthur Ashe, the
champion tennis player told of how as a child, he wanted to talk like
an educated person. Instead of talking with slang words, he wanted
to be understood by everyone. He accomplished his goal by listening
to radio personalities. They enunciated their words and spoke clearly
and concisely. Arthur grew up to be a terrific speaker.
When people come into my shop, or into any business and say,
"You don't have", that really irritates me. Very often I do have what
they are asking for, but I want to say that they must know my stock
better than I do because I sure thought I had that item.
When people ask for directions, they should listen. My shop is in
Wynola Farms Marketplace. The market place is made up of several
buildings. The retail stores are all in the buildings closest to Highway
78. The service types of businesses are in the back building. Sandra
Sevilla has her hair and nail salon in the back building. Her salon isn't
in an obvious place. First time clients sometimes have to be shown
how to get to it. After that, it's easy to find. When asked how to get to
her salon, I point to the door in our building that's on the east side of
the building. I tell people to go out that door, and go immediately left
without walking down the stairs. At that point it's easy to see Sandra's
salon which is in a small building inside the bigger building. I've often
seen people ask directions of a second person before they ever get
to the door. That irritates me because it tells me that I gave easy
instructions to someone who wasn't listening.
People who interrupt while someone else is telling a story are really
irritating. It's sometimes called one-up-man-ship. Another way to
describe this kind of interruption is "My story is better than yours."
One thing that really irritates me is people who are late. If you say
you will meet me at a certain time, please be there when you say
you Will: Your time is just as important as mine. But it isn't more
important.
Highway 78 runs in front of the building my shop is in. Last
Saturday I listened as cars driven by people who were in a hurry and
who weren't paying attention honked at cars ahead of them that were
slowing down to turn into our parking lot. Yes, I saw blinkers on most
of the turning vehicles. I know the drivers behind them were irritated.
They made it clear when they blasted their horns. However, our
section of highway has many driveways and a few parking lots along
it and vehicles often turn onto
and off of the highway. Drivers
who see that we don't have an
interstate highway with clearly
marked entrances and exits
could use their brains, slow down
and pay attention to the view
around them. The view often
includes brake lights ahead.
Lots of things can be irritating.
• People who don't listen to an
answer after asking a question;
people who twist the truth and
act like they are repeating a story
or event exactly as they heard it;
people who drive too fast or too
slow, drivers who don't pull over
when a vehicle behind them is
trying to go faster. All of these
things can be very irritating.
I don't care whether my toilet
seat is left up or down. Toothpaste
tubes can be squeezed anywhere
along the tube. No problem for
me. I can still get the toothpaste
out of the tube.
I know that I do things that
irritate others. But I try not to.
Sometimes I try really hard not to
irritate others.
ACCEPTING
WOMEN, INFANTS & CHILDREN
Groceria Produce • Sundries
Beer • Wine • Liquor
Springtime In The Country
will be the theme for the United
Methodist Women's Annual
Fashion Show on Wednesday,
May 25. As always there will be a
choice of shows to attend, 11:30
a.m. Luncheon ($20 donation)
or the 7:00 p.m. Dessert ($12
donation)
Advance tickets only available
at Julian Tea & Cottage Arts or at
the Church on Sunday mornings.
Contact Jan Bunganich at
760-936-1119 for additional
information.
Sherry Pope modeling at last
years show.
• • •
,ilL,
in Wynola Farms Marketplace 4470 Highway 78
Methodist Church
Spring Fashion Show
These are my thoughts.
Music At The
Marketplace
very Ellisman, Director of the
Julian Fiddle Camp, along with a
few of the camp's young fiddlers
will be doing a brief performance
at the upcoming Julian Farmers'
Market on Sunday April 10th.
They will demonstrate some of
the fiddling that will go on at the
camp, and let you know some of
the music that will be whafting
through the hills April 14th - 17th
at the this year's fiddle camp.
Come on out to the Market and
preview the traditional acoustic
dance and fiddle music that is
alive and well, and being taught
in our own backyard.
JULIAN EAGLES BOOSTER CLUB
JULIAN UNION HIGH SCHOOL
POST OFFICE BOX 417
JULIAN, CA 92036
SWAP MEET REGISTRATION
High School Parking Lot
Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Vendor Pre-Rental Space Form
Name/Group:
Mailing Address:
Phone Number:
Number of Spaces:
One parking stalls $20.00
Two parking stalls $25.00
Three parking stalls $30.00
** Please mail this form and
your check to:
Checks will
Julian Eagles Booster Club
P.O. Box 417, Julian, CA 92036
be non-refundable
Types of items for sale (for pre-advertising curiosity?)
Please note:
Upon receipt of this form, the Booster Club will send you a receipt for your rental
space, map of the parking lot indicating your assigned space, and a continental
breakfast voucher(s) for each rental space.
Check-in/Set-up Time: 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
You are welcome to bring your own canopy to fit your rental space(s).
Sellers/Vendors will be responsible for their own clean-up of space.
We cannot provide dump/haul-away service for unsold items
PLEASE SUBMIT NO LATER THAN APRIL 15th
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