Random reminder

Press, 11 June 1982, Page 26

Random reminder

TREASURE TROVE

With three children old enough to cook dinners and to go out on Saturday nights, the discovery that there was to be a fourth came as rather a shock to a Christchurch lady recently. However she was delighted to discover that science and technology had not spent the entire past decade fiddling about with laser beams and multiple independant retargetable warheads but had perfected stretch and grow suits, polycarbonate feeding bottles, instant milk mix and disposable nappies. The latter proved invaluable on trips away from home. On her first trip to the city with, the new infant she used the facilities in Cathedral Square thoughtfully provided for the feeding and changing of infants. She placed a par-

ticularly sordid nappy in an especially fine paper bag which she had brought with her for the purpose. It was emblazoned with the name of a superior Christchurch department store. Her children, having socialist principles, had rejected it as a school lunch bag. She then discovered to her dismay that there did not seem to be anywhere to dispose of it. Feeling harried, she hurried downstairs and placed it temporarily on the top of the pram hood while she tucked in the howling baby, arranged her parcels and located her bus ticket. She thendiscovered. that some considerate lightfingered person had solved her problem for her-and stolen her disposable nanny.