The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-01
Some Guests Take
Advantage of Owners
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get in and go and say nothing.
People going out fishing take a
friend or two along because there is
room and the friend or two on re-
ceiving the invitation are told that
the inviting party will prepare lunch
for all. This may be said out of
politeness to give the invited a
chance to offer to make the sand
wiches or to take the fruit or some
thing. On arriving at the fishing
grounds, the invited rush around
and do the fishing, and get no fish,
but share what the other catch. Or,
if they get good catch and the in
viters do not, then the invited Is
liable to put them away carefully
to take home and modestly keep
them all for themselves and let the
hosts, who gave them the days
pleasure take their own fisherman's
luck. On such a trip the invited
sometimes forgets that somebody
has to rustic wood and water and
make fires and do cooking and that
the driver may have to give his car
the once over to get it in condition
for good trip home and has not a
world Of time to get wood and water
and cook. Guests can be awfully
nice or awfully stupid on fishing
trips or hunting trips, and they do
not always get invited second time,
for reasons that are never dis
cussed.
People going to shows and fairs
or long trips may have room for
somebody to ride with them and not
wish to pay their admissions and
hotel bills and their railroad fare If
the car happens to break down and
make 1t necessary to take a train
home. Just because host offers a
free ride, it does not follow that II
he breaks down and has to return
by rail and pay losses on the car,
that he wants to pay hotel bills and
car fare for persons to whom he
merely offered the free use of seats
in his car. Guests can be awfully
nice about grasping situations like
these and thrusting their hands into
their own pockets and paying for
some rides themselves and paying
some admissions themselves and
paying for some meals themselves,
but 1t follows that II they do not,
the one who invited them will not
see them left out or g0ing-hungry or
returning home afoot il he can find
the means to go thru with the job
There are a good many guests who
do not get invited a second time
and for definite reasons.
Automobile seat cushions cost
anywhere from $40 to $50 and are
very durable If used properly, but
easily ruined If abused. A good
piling in and sitting on Somebody
lap. That places twice as much
weight on that surface as it was
made to carry, and when it goes
churning over the road it gradually
brushes the life out of the cushion
and it never stands up again as II
should. Another way people have
of running cushions is to throw
some wraps on the seat and then
sit on them. The wraps lie In
streaks or knots and dig deeper
and deeper into the cushions az
they ride, and when the passenger
gets out, there are streaks and
holes jammed into the cushion that
never come out again. A favorite
way of tanning cushion is to
throw robe on it and then sit
down. on the robe and as the car
surges and losses, the robe works
back between the cushion and the
back of the seat and forms irto
rolls and wada, and crimps the
cushion sidewise till it breaks
down in part. Not all guests dc
these things, but some guests do,
and the car owner can hardly af-
ford to ask them to get up and re-
arrange their wraps and robes. If
he does they are quite likely to say,
ooh, that is all right" and sit still
and ignore his request.
Some folks like to go out for a
ride so they can have quiet time
admiring the sunset and the things
of nature, and If they are tired and
nervous when they start out and
happen to invite guest or two
who are constant takers, and who
cannot see anything in sunsets and
nature, but talk on and on Of petty
things that are of no interest and
ought to be forgotten, that is liable
to be a reason for failing to invite
the talker to be a ride guest again.
These are the main things that
people have spoken of in our inter-
viws as to why they sometimes 60
out for drives with empty seats in
the car when they know that some
body is yearning for ride. They
become hard1hearted and think,
LET 'em yearn.' Or they change
the spelling just one letter and
think, "Let 'em learn"
Well readers, that is what we
are helping you to do-helping you
to learn. There is nothing personal
about all this. The folks we inter
viewed did not know we were 60
ing to publish anything about it..
We had to have something valu-
able to fill our old newspaper, so
we are giving you this for what
ever it is worth.
By the way-all past mistakes
are hereby cancelled and are now
to be forgotten. We have all learned
great deal about cars, and the
more than the passengers. All Of
us have been guests in somebody's
car at one time or another and If
we made mistakes or did stupid
things, it is all part of the great
campaign of education getting
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