Patience, my dear customer

Patience, my dear customer
EDITOR:
'Tis the season to have patience.
Working in the retail world is a real eye opener.
Now that the Christmas holidays are quickly approaching, please practice patience and kindness.
We in retail deal with a lot of impatient customers. You are not the only one shopping and every customer is important, not just you.
Everyone will be in lines. Your complaining will not make the line go faster.
If you drop something, pick it up. The stores don't get messy because we're not doing our jobs. You are making the mess. Please, be kind.
Then there are the restrooms. We have to use them too. Please don't make a mess. Would you do that at your home? Your mother taught you better.
Thank you, and have a kind and patient Christmas season.
LINDA SKRINYER
Youngstown
Ohio's new U.S. senator matches the L-word to a T
EDITOR:
Coming from a background of poor parent immigrants from Eastern Europe, you'd think I'd be a staunch Democrat. I was. I turned Republican during the Reagan presidency, primarily because of moral and ethical issues.
I was disheartened by the recent election of Sherrod Brown to the U.S. Senate. This man is strongly pro-abortion, pro-partial-birth abortion, anti-parental consent before a minor girl's abortion, anti-federal marriage amendment, anti-Pledge of Allegiance, anti-display of the Ten Commandments, and that's just the moral and ethical issues. What a litany of liberal leftist ideas Mr. Brown supports.
If I practiced my Christian religion faithfully and believed what it teaches, and voted my support for any liberal Democratic candidate of Mr. Brown's caliber, I would presently be washing my hands like Pontius Pilate and labeling myself a true hypocrite.
CHARLES B. LUCIW
Youngstown
Where's the justice?
EDITOR:
Reading the Nov. 22 Vindicator, two stories popped out at me. First was the story about the teenage girl who was gang raped by seven men in Saudi Arabia. She went before the judge and was given more lashes than the men who raped her. This story has triggered a rare debate about the Saudi legal system.They also have public beheadings.
Where is the outrage from our government? There is none because we can't get the Saudi thugs mad at us for one reason, oil. These people spawned the terrorists who attacked our country, and if it wasn't that we were so dependent on them for oil, we would not turn our heads on such atrocities. But I would be willing to bet that if all-out war broke out in the Arab countries, Saudi Arabia would turn on us in a minute.
The other story was about the three Aryan brotherhood prison gang members being sentenced to life in prison for murder, conspiracy and racketeering behind bars. How do you like that punishment? They're already behind bars, so this is a big joke to them. How could a jury deadlock on this trial? If they aren't going to get the death penalty, nobody should.
Child molesters, rapists and murderers will all be getting jail time because of the goody two shoes they put on juries.
HARRY G. McKELVEY
Hermitage