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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1981)
1861 ‘l Abjm 'Aepsjnm uofimiBg ai/jr 'S/IJOJ C3WE l-VOI*\ OUR BES\ V Dearest Mother, Mother's Day is here once again, and when I think of how much ☆ I love you, ☆ money you've given me, ☆ weight you've lost, it makes me ☆ wipe a tear from my eye. ☆ sick. ☆ want to go home now instead of taking my finals. Mom, you were always there when I ☆ spit up my broccoli. ☆ came in from a date at 3:36 a. m. ☆needed you to sew up my blue jeans. Maybe I didn't ☆ clean up the mess under my bed, ☆ clean up the mess on top of my bed, ☆ change my under wear, but you loved me enough to ☆ clean up after my puppy. ☆ let me stay up to watch Marcus Welby. ☆ let me start shaving when I was 12. So to show you how much I care, I want you to know that if I could give you anything in the whole wide world, I'd give you ☆ a kiss. ☆ a 4.00 GPR on my grade report. ☆ a candle-lit dinner at Sbisa Dining Hall. But since I'm just a poor college student, all I can give you is ☆ this touching card from Focus. ☆ my dirty laundry from the whole spring semester. ☆ my unpaid GTE bills. Like every Aggie, I love the way you ☆ wear maroon and white pantsuits. ☆ mail me cookies that my room mates immediately devour. ☆ sing the Aggie War Hymn while you wash the dishes. Mom, since this is your day, I want you to ☆ meet Pat Boone, ☆ sit down at an Aggie football game, ☆ forget to mail my check — just like you always wanted. To make your day special, I want you to ☆ make Dad take you to out for dinner. ☆ call the easy-listening radio station and request your favorite song. ☆ put your feet up and contemplate what life would have been like if you had never had lads. Seriously, you're the best Mom I ever had. You're the ☆ most compassionate ☆ busiest ☆ shortest person I know. I really mean it. Mom. I ☆ love you ☆ love you ☆ love you more than I can say. Happy Mother's Day. Lots of Love, Your Aggie Okay gang, you would have forgotten, wouldn't you? What? When is Mother's Day? It's Sunday, May 10. You would have forgotten, wouldn't you? Think how disappointed your mom would be if you forgot to tell her how much you care. What if all those other moms got Hallmarks and flowers, but your mom didn't get anything? You wouldn't want to be known as the ingrate of the family. Because Focus knew how busy you would be preparing for your finals, we're bringing you this check-and-clip Mother's Day card. Now you don't have the excuse of not wanting to brave envelope-grabbing hoards in the card shops. We made life easier for you. Just color in the stars before the sentiments that express your true feelings about your dear mother. Multiple answers are acceptable. Then sign your name, cut on the dotted lines and seek out the nearest mail box. For a personal touch, try gluing construction paper to the back of the card. Or color in the drawings on the card. Or add lace or glitter. Let your imagination go. It's a good way to procratinate just a bit longer before you study for your finals. Sorry, we can't provide envelopes or pay the postage. But it's a free card — truly an Aggie original that mom won't soon forget. M isn’t for the money you gave me M isn't for the money you gave me when I whined for a Mister Potato Head which I built all of six times before flattening its ears while you taught me how to ride a bicycle without abstractly painting the sidewalk red — no doubt your greatest triumph since potty-training M can't be for memorizing the lyrics to my radio songs Wanting to hear them just to see me minus headphones not complaining (too much) while I sang during dinner even though I grossed out the entire family worse Worse than your Saturday stewed chicken — It wasn't that bad; Bac- O's is now meat in my diet M is for being mellow when I woke you at 11:01 p.m. and spurted among tears that I won't graduate till God knows when or prere quisites are outlawed So I can't fulfill your hope of my winning The Pultizer and Nobel and Oscar before 30 — You called it my dream; You said be cool 1 J I % a Alvarez Yairi Handmade Guitars with Lifetime Warranty Alvarez, from 98 00 Yairi, 449"° to 2100 M Some Order, Some Stocked Reasonably priced at Keyboard Center KEyboAnd Center i ayaway Visa MANOR EAST MALL Master Card 713/779-7080 BRYAN, TX 77801 i