No good turn goes unpunished.<\/b> Joe Wilding was headed south on Bayard last month in a JC Wilding pick-up truck when he came upon a giant, shifting mound of mattress foam fanned out across the intersection at Felspar. He pulled over and began the arduous task of trying to clean up the mess. He got most of it in the truck and covered it with a tarp, but not before someone \u2013 apparently thinking he\u2019d made the mess \u2013 drove by and gave him the stink-eye. My late neighbor Emily Packer<\/b> has gone to her great reward, but her legacy lives on. Always a free spirit, Emily let her lawn do its own thing. By mid-summer the weeds had usually muscled the grass out of the way, and it often looked like a wheat field. Emily had no heirs and the home is apparently in a trust. The weeds didn\u2019t care. They\u2019re back bigger than ever. I went down to CVS last week to get me a box of Q-tips.<\/b> I grew up using them to keep my ears clean. The box lists a “variety of uses,” but ear cleaning isn\u2019t one of them. Baby care \u2013 delicately care for sensitive areas. First aid \u2013 gently apply ointments and creams. Household use \u2013 for all household cleaning. Electronics \u2013 clean and dust even hard-to-reach areas. I have an ugly feeling that someone must have misused a Q-tip in the past and ear cleaning is now verboten. Speaking of CVS, do you remember what it used to be? Of course you do \u2013 it was Longs only a few weeks ago. How about before that? Remember Liquor Barn? And before that, what it was actually built for? I\u2019ll put the answer at the bottom of the column. I\u2019m thinking of taking up drinking liquor.<\/b> It can\u2019t be much more expensive than what I\u2019ve been drinking!! A Pepsi cost me $2.55 at El Torito in Mission Valley a while back. Then I got dinged $2.99 for a cup of coffee at Karl Strauss in La Jolla. Guess I better start hanging around the new Cass Street Caf\u00e9 in Bird Rock. Their coffee is A BUCK!!! Bumper Snicker:<\/b> I sure got a kick out of “I used to have a handle on life but it broke.” (Big Bear Market) John Fry may be reached at 272-6655 or mail@johnfry.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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