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HE OTHER DAY, I GOT ON AN in front of you, another car will cut in and
airplane and, as usual, fell asleep ill it up. Nature abhors a vacuum.”
The Board of Directors of Flathead County Water & Sewer District #1 - Evergreen
is looking for people interested in appointment to a position on the board.
before it took of. And, just as By the time I got over Sepulveda Pass
Gulliver did, I woke up in the land of and got ready to handle the interchange
To be eligible for appointment an individual must be a registered voter that either make-believe: Los Angeles, where your to Santa Barbara, I was tailgating just
resides within the District or owns property within the District.
irst experience is trying to ind the car- like someone in the Winston 500 and go-
ousel that is supposed to have your bag- ing as fast. I drove the 75 miles to Santa
Individuals interested in serving on the board should contact the District Manager, gage from your mythical light. I was Barbara in a little less than an hour and
once again introduced to the law of the never got into the fast lane!
Roberta Struck, at the ofice on 130 Nicholson Drive or call her at: 257-5861.
airport: “It will take as long for your bag- The next morning you could see for-
gage to get from the airport to the carou- ever. California was like it was when I
sel as it did for your body to arrive from was a youngster, clear skies and the sun
your departure place.”
sparkling of the water. But me being a
Anytime /Anywhere
The trip from the curb to the car youngster was more than 80 years ago.
rental garage was in a bus big enough to Walking to my meeting place that
hold an entire football team and driven morning, I was almost knocked down by
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by a small woman who had just gradu- a couple on rollerblades: both in a deep

ated from Race Car Driving School in crouch and racing toward total body it-
Marin County. Fortunately, there were ness. They were dressed in matching
seatbelts on the bus or we would have purple and black spandex, silver roller- ♥ horough ♥ Economic
wound up in a heap, just like the baggage blades and alternating green and red el-
did, against the front windshield when bow pads and black brain buckets with a ♥ Eicient
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the bus got cut of by a speeding automo- six-foot ribbon lowing behind them al-
bile being chased by a police car.
lowing the second person to draft behind
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hitch except the clerk had to have some- the evening before while driving up the
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front of them while they were crouched
As I crept toward the on-ramp for the down and working out.
freeway to merge with the evening rush After the meeting and on my return
hour traic, I realized I had not done to LA, I avoided the freeway by driv- American Heart Association and Red Cross Certiications

this for a few years and the butterlies in ing down the coast route. Though it was
my stomach were bigger than those in a great to have the ocean on my right, the
novice skier who discovers they have ac- speed of the oncoming traic was nearly
cidently committed to make the second that of the freeway, so I stayed way over
turn on a black diamond, mogul-illed to the right.
run.
I was heading toward a time-manage-
Once in the low of the evening traic, ment seminar. I showed up late. Some One Call!
I watched as car after car changed lanes
start.
and slipped into the space between my Living like this is why I left the LA ba- Now That’s Convenient.
car and the one in front of me. A rule of sin 25 years ago for the Northwest eight
Los Angeles freeway driving is, “If there months of the year and the mountains
is enough space between you and the car
the other four. I’m too old to remodel!
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