Action: Action, explain 'marital disillusion'

I am very serious. Do you know of a plastic surgeon just starting a practice? I would be happy to have him practice on my face. I sure do need a face-lifting, but I don't have the money.

I am writing concerning a friend who is presently incarcerated. He worked at a deli and was a good, dependable worker. But he did steal a car belonging to his employer. And they seem to feel he had possession of two blank company checks and converted them to his personal use. Now his boss hasn't paid him for the last two weeks. Is this any reason to withhold his pay?

Action Line is the best thing I almost read every night.

I would dlike soem inflammation on wokring for the govenment as a secatary or typisst. Who woul dI contact?

Please send me a picture of a UFO and its inhabitants.

Can a Zenith color TV set be operated in reverse so the person being viewed on the screen can see the viewer?

I've had two accidents, both with uninsured motorists, and the parties have not been arrested. There's some silly nonsense going on about it being my fault. That's not the point.

When I fell and hurt my foot, I had to have surgery on it. A month later, I had surgery on it again. After that, I went to a foot doctor.

I don't know the name or address of the company I ordered this from. It was an electronics firm and the salesman's name was Al. There cannot be that many people by that name working for electronics firms. Can't you use a computer to find him?

Recently I accepted some collect calls from the county detention center. The bill showed I was charged $3.10 for each call. How can the telephone company get away with this? Call the phone company immediately and demand an explanation.

Please send me the addresses of several servicemen. Make sure they are single.

How long does it take for a widow to become a virgin again?

I would like you to get me my $100 deposit back. I can't tell you the name of the company because I don't want any trouble with them.

How can I donate my body to USF for student experience?

I've been told my uncle will never heal. Instead of undergoing a succession of painful treatments, I've decided to have him amputated.

You asked for the address label from my magazine so you could get my subscription problems straightened out. You don't need it. The magazine knows my address and so do you.

Please help. For the last two or three weeks I have been getting phone calls, often at 2 or 3 in the morning. This morning it was 4 a.m. It's always a man and he always asks for Kathy. The voices are different each time. After several days of this I finally asked where they got my phone number. It seems it was published in a swinging singles magazine with only the name Kathy next to it. My name is not "Kathy" and I'm not a swinging single. I am 79 and I can't even swing a golf club. My husband is getting very nervous about these calls. How can I get my number out of this magazine?

Can you get a body back if it was buried at sea?

I'm getting too old to rake leaves and would like to know if you can suggest any way that I can keep my trees from making leaves.

My wife filed for a disillusion of marriage. Does that mean divorce?

Can Action find out what happened to 1988?

My husband wrote a letter about our bank account, but he really doesn't know what's going on. Please disregard this letter upon his request.

I have written to you four or five times, and you have always given it to me. Thanks very much.

When I had a maid, she washed dishes by filling the sink with soap suds and getting wet almost to the elbows. She is no longer with me. Now I wash dishes by sponging them under running hot water, but my dance partner says I will poison myself one day. Is this possible? I am pushing 80 but am having too much fun to pass on from washing dishes the wrong way. Please research and report.

All I want to know is, what day is this?

The red spot on Jupiter acts like a gearbox. It makes half the planet turn one way and the other half the other way. I haven't seen anything in the media about this. What can you find on the subject?

I do not recognize people who toot at me from automobiles as they drive by. Persons going by this street may see me, but I don't know who they are. I want them not to do that. If I am leaving my front door, they will toot at me from over 75 feet away from inside an automobile. This to me is acutely rude, and they are people who I don't want to know at all for any reason. Is there some way you could get that message across to these people who insist on knowing me for whatever reason so that I may find out who they are and confront them with why they toot as they drive past which I dislike intensely?

In response to your humane approach to the fruit rat problem, I, too, was touched. So much so that from now on when my house needs tenting for termites. I'll have the exterminator give it an extra-strength shot of laughing gas. That way the little creeps will die laughing.

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