ONLY IF I HAD A CHARLIE

horse would I eat a 'nanny this speckled. I prefer them sorta green but not crisp. Not rigid to the bite. Yet certainly not mushy as these two look.

But what I'm discussing today is what makes me go bananas. A few things anyway.

One is clothes hangers. I know, it's illogical, but I hate hangers. They come in too many sizes, they leave little bumps on my shirts, they get tangled with other kinds/sizes of hangers. Sometimes my pants slide right off them.

No description--they speak (poorly) for themselves. I should add that I've never met another who had such antipathy for hangers.

Drivers who don't use turn signals. Only on the rarest of times,will anyone catch me not using mine. It's so ingrained in me that I want to use them when the road curves, just to help the ones I'm meeting or the ones behind me whom I don't want to meet. When I see a driver not using them, I'll usually say (for the umpeeth time) "Oh, I see he has one of those new cars they sell without turn signals." I know it's weak, but that, too makes me go bananas.

My third and final is the MTV High gymnasium. Changnon Gymnasium is the oldest gym in the state of IL where boys basketball is being played. It's a typical Hoosiers old fashioned band box or snakepit. Where spectators sitting in the first row have their feet in bounds. Where there's still a three-foot restraining line. And where there is terrific atmosphere on a Friday or Saturday night. But my gripe is, no one seems to appreciate. No one wants to promote it's great history. Where 3 Illinois State championship teams played. Where as recently as 1999, a home town team ranked 2nd in the nation played their home games.

All that is heard is MTV needs a new high school (agreed) and a new gym (I don't know about that one). Well, I agree, for PE classes, I'd understand and go along with it, but for the practices and games, keep Changnon and all its history. The funny thing is, those that want to blow up the old gym would be the first to want to save Wrigley and Fenway.

That's my bananas for today. If you want to rankle me some, just bring up the ideas that the best bananas are the ripest, hangers are a great invention, who needs turn signals, and build a new gym for MTV bball. Them's fightin' words as they still say in SoIL.