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Issue One                                                  May 2021

===========================[ ASK JONE ]===========================

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                              W. asks:
          "I have a strained relationship with my sister.   
           What are some things I can do to help repair it?"


I remember my dad and I went through this patch where we were both
pretty pissed off at each other, not that I remember why at this
point. But sharing is caring, right? So to keep things going, I'm
still dropping off cans of Chunk'n'Dunk soup for him, because it's
all he ever feels like eating anymore. Although that stuff is just
not very nutritious. But because I'm mad at him, I don't bother to
bring his favorite, the meatball-carrot stew one. Instead, I bring
him can after can of turkey-a-la-king. You ever try that one from
Chunk'n'Dunk? Not great. And I guess dad's thinking along the same
lines as me, because every time I come by he leaves me another pair
of snow tires he found. But I'm not selling tires any more by then,
so I don't want them. And he knows that, but he keeps on getting
tires anyhow.

And so we go on like this for weeks: I come by and put like 5 more
cans of turkey-a-la-king on his kitchen counter, and he stacks a
few more snow tires outside his door for me. And all this stuff is
piling higher and higher and higher, and we're gradually getting
madder and madder at each other. Until one day I go over there with
another box of cans, and he starts screaming and yelling about how
he hates turkey-a-la-king. And he gets so mad he accidentally
knocks over the stack of cans. And some falls on his head and he
falls over, and the rest of the cans come crashing down on him.
Pretty bad scene. So I go to help him up, but I slip and trip on a
can on the floor, and hit the ground hard too. And if you've ever
fallen on a pile of Chunk'n'Dunk turkey-a-la-king cans, you know
that hurts pretty bad.

So we're both groaning on the ground, and then there's this weird
sound by the front door. When I get out there to check it I find
that co-incidentally the big pile of snow tires out there has also
fallen over, and it's crushed some unlucky little gnome who must
have been milling around by there. Those things are so bad at
staying alive, I just can't believe it sometimes.

Anyways, if you're looking to patch things up with your sister, I
would say maybe don't do it with canned soup, or snow tires. It
sure didn't help us any. It just wasn't a good result for anyone,
especially for that gnome. Or if you have to go with soup, at least
stick with the meatball-carrot one. It's actually not bad.

Thanks for writing in. I hope that helps.

                                                    -JONE


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