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Activities 4 - The Elk City News September 23, 2023 Husband Is A Drunk Drag @IPLEY’S Believe It or Not! While On Vacation Wy Zorg, TURKISH GARBAGE COLLECTORS me for gas for an errand they OPENED A LIBRARY INANKARA Dear Abby kids I didn’t like any of them and that’s whyIwent alone. He were already running seems WITH DISCARDED BOOKS. refuses counseling and seems not only rude, but also trans- THEY NOW HAVE OVER DEAR ABBY: I love to travel, 6,000 vo.umes! to not understand why I don’t yet I loathe traveling with my want to be around him, He actional to the point of cheap- husband. He gets anxious and also “spares no expense” on my ness.I might add that my items extremely mean on the days dime when we are on vacation, were nearly weightless and did leading up to the trip and es- He acts as if we are loaded. not increase fuel requirements. pecially while en route. I do all Help! -- UNHAPPY TRAVELER the planning and pay for ev- (Had I asked for bricks, I'd be Tarmac LINEMARKING, erything, and I regard it as not more understanding.) Is my AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY, DEAR TRAVELER: Traveling only ungrateful and rude, but friend cheap for charging me IS MAKING NIGHT TIME unnecessary. Is it wrong for is stressful, and some people for gas after offering to shop DRIVING SAFER WITH don’t handle it well. Your al- GLOW-IN-THE-DARK me to not want him to come on the next big trip I plan? coholic husband appears to be for me? Or am I cheap for ROAD MARKINGS! Also, while we travel, all he one of them. If you want to en- balking? - NICKELED AND wants to do is sleep, eat and joy your travel experience, con- DIMED IN INDIANA drink. I’m all about taking in sider taking another vacation the local culture and making trip without him. Include the DEAR NICKELED AND sure to not miss anything. I children, if they are old enough DIMED: Your friend is cheap. also enjoy a glass of wine with to appreciate the exposure they are being given, and al- ‘They should not have asked for dinner, but I don’t want to drink into oblivion, and I'm ways assure them that you love monetary compensation for a OQ Avcuer 8, 2004, on Cuicaco's KINZIE definitely not up for sleeping them without measure. If you trip they were taking anyway. STREET BRIDGE, THE my vacation away. My husband leave your husband at home, Dave MATTHEWS BAND you and your children may en- If you value the relationship, does have a drinking problem TOUR BUS as well (a topic for another let- joy the experience more than if pay the $2 and, the next time ACCIDENTALLY DUMPED ter). you drag him along. you are asked if the person can 8OO Pounvs oF SEWAGE Before I booked our last trip, pick up something for you, say ON A RIVER CRUISE! Ibegged him to please not ruin DEAR ABBY: Recently, a “Thank you, but don’t bother.” it (our children were with us), friend went out of town to and he promised to be on his shop and asked if Id like for Crossword best behavior. That lasted un- them to pick me up a few small Dear Abby is written by Abi- til the day before we left. Then items while they were there. gail Van Buren, also known ACROSS it was like the mean switch I said I would, and told them as Jeanne Phillips, and was ‘“— Poets Society” flipped on. Before we even left what I would like. When they founded by her mother, Pau- 5 Fully grown for the airport, all he did was returned, they sent me the cal- 10 Constitutional line Phillips. Contact Dear yell and complain about the air- culation of what I owed: pur- 14 Comedian — line, parking, packing, etc. I'm chase price, tax - and gas! This Abby at www.DearAbby.com or Johnson at my wits’ end. The one time is someoneI consider to be a P.O. 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