* And So They Say: Jo Carmicheal: I would enjoy being lazy, but I do not have time.” Brad Waller (age 5): Mother, can we keep our cat after she grows up to be a tiger?” Hazel Larson: “After trying to get some seedlings started, I will never complain again about the price of plants.”

* And So They Say: Dorothia Lytle: “I am certainly glad there is only one Monday in each week.” Elaine Korb: “I’m different than most people—I enjoy being lazy.” Stan Krysl: “I can’t help but celebrate my granddaughter’s birthday on the exact day as it falls on the last day for filing income taxes.”

* And So They Say: Francis Cadoret: “I am more particular about what kind of food I buy for the dog than I am for the family.” C. N. Harper: “I would like to give my grandchildren some rabbits for Easter, but I want to keep on speaking terms with their parents.” Chuck Waller: “If we keep on having unpleasant Sundays like we did last summer, I think I’ll shut up shop on Wednesday instead of Sunday.” Virgil Olson: “I have two stories about how I got my cut nose and black eye. One is the truth, and the other is more lurid.” Elmer Slansky: “There is no question about it. It does make a difference whether you plant in the light or the dark of the moon.”

* And So They Say: Doyle Cook: “The faster I go, the farther behind I get.” Francis Eshler; “If they keep putting more taxes on cigarettes, a lot of people are going to be smoking pipes and cigars in the near future. Blanche E. Smith: “My post office box number has been 92 for 40 years and I’ve kept it through three post office moves.” * The annual banquet

* And So They Say: Edith Bouchey: “No, I did not get my garden planted, but I looked at it.” Ig Gross: “I am not running for anything, but I do think everyone should get out and vote.” Duffie Hindman: “I don’t want anyone to talk to me. I am working on my own income tax and there isn’t a redeeming feature about it.”

* And So They Say: John B. Smith: “Looking through bifocals is sure hard on your neck. Francis Cadoret: “It used to be that when a woman’s skirt blew up, it hid her face, now the skirts won’t reach that far.” James H. Gilbert: “The world treats me OK—it’s the people. Lionel Carter: “I buy pills so I can work in order to make enough money to buy more pills.”

* And So They Say: Wilma Johnston: “Whenever I wax the post office floor, I know it’s going to storm.” Ruth Marshall: “I don’t know why they don’t make throw-away furniture.” Lionel Carter: “I think Stockton is very fortunate in having two such fine doctors down at the health Center.” Whitey Smee: “It has been so quiet around the sheriff’s office lately, that I’m afraid things will really start popping soon.”

* And So They Say: Chuck Waller: “I’m disgusted with Kansas. I thought you could fly a kite on any day—especially in March, but Sunday, I tried and couldn’t get it off the ground.” Efford Lowe: “My birthdays are beginning to be important events.” Ralph Slansky: “I had to buy a new pocketbook and now I have no money to put in it.”

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: “You know what the first thing is that I read in the Record? The ads.” Everett Hughes: “It is not much wonder that dogs bark at people walking past their houses. They see so few people walking these days.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “I stay at home most of the time, but not because I want to.” Orville Livingston: “We gave our son Dale an orange tree when we were in Riverside, California three years ago and this week I received the first crop, all sixteen oranges!”

* And So They Say: Gardner Rogers: “If anyone should hear something barking in the trees, it is just my squirrels. I have been feeding them dog pellets lately.” Bill Gouldman: “If you want to get home from some place in a hurry, do not let Barbara Brown do the driving. No telling where she will end up.” Rae Hageman: “I’m spending all of my time making plans for the store’s 60th anniversary.”