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Dear Editor:
Today is my birthday anniversary and I am going to celebrate by saying exactly what's on my mind! It is a delightful experience, for most of us have spent a life time supressing a desire to venture a:: opinion.
I am now 76, and that's a dangerous age! Allow me to list as my No. 1 exercise in stupidity the practice that pharmacists have of putting medication in ?child proof? containers.
Here?s how it works: Adults with arthritis struggle and become frustrated and angry because they cannot ?push down the middle while lining up the arrows,? so the blood pressure rises to the point of near stroke until a small grandchild or some pre-school kid in the neighborhood is called in to open the bottle.
Kids enjoy doing tricks their elders can?t do. The pills are then poured into a screw-top bottle or one with a cork. There must be a lesson in this some place. Do you agree?
It also seems to me that 'egardless of what a person does or ?s not do he is liable to get involv-
ed in a law suit costing time, money and inconvenience.
The law suit craze is taking this country by storm. It is a phobia. I spend countless hours inspecting the grounds to make sure there isn?t a protruding root, a loose brick or perhaps a slick snail in the path and somebody could fall and bring suit.
And what about my oleander? It is said to be poisonous. The city neutral grounds are full of them, too.
I don?t think our sales tax can comfortably pay for more law suits.
And then what about the car? Better keep a sharp eye out to see that the seat belts are working satisfactorily. What if a passenger is safely buckled in, an accident occurs that knocks the victim unconcious and unable to release the belt, the auto is on fire, the unfortunate victim dies. Whom should the survivors sue, the owner of the car, the makers of the seat belts, or both?
No wonder I have insomnia. Maybe I should take a sleeping pill?that is, if I can get the top off the container.	[
Joe Pilet Bay St. Louis ;
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