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2 XQL GSflTiLE'S VI2VJ DON GENTILE ir terrible -swift swords three musketeers th THEY SAY Hell doesn't have the fury of a woman scorned. Right? even" stage is over, the heart hurts a heck of a lot less, Moran said. There was a pregnant pause in the conversation, and then Tony made an admission. He had to say that the two-stage theory Moran had proposed seemed valid. He had gone through the same thing.

It was a woman named Theresa from Bayside who had driven Tony nuts five years ago. She was an aerobics instructor, the kind of girl who made Tony sit by the bedroom window looking to the street outside for the moment she drove up outside his apartment. Thoughts of her were constant. She filled his brain. Tony couldn't work.

He found himself composing poems to her inside cards with messages he had taken hours to select. A busy signal on her phone made him claw the paint off the walls. "It was obsession, pure Tony said. One day, Theresa called Tony to say she had something to talk to him about. She was leaving him for a bartender.

The next day, the bartender moved into Theresa's apartment. Tony said he felt like he had been hit with a ton of bricks. He quickly entered the "wimp period." "For a week, I lay catatonic on the couch," Tony said. He even called and begged Theresa to take him back. He visited her once when the bartender was gone and begged in person and cried.

"Then I said to myself, 'This has got to stop, Tony said. So, Tony the Wimp became Tony the Avenger. His revenge came in the form of phone calls, literally hundreds of phone calls. melt. He would have climbed every mountain, forged every sea, and all that, for her.

She was the kind of girl who makes you wait by the phone going crazy because it isn't ringing at the exact time she said she'd call. Susan dumped Moran when his passion was in mid-fever pitch. Looking back on it allegorically, Moran said there is first a "wimp men go through, the one where you feel like less than a man. You wonder how a romance which seemed to be on fire suddenly gets a bucket of cold water thrown on it. You keep phoning the ex-flame, and she talks to you, but it's never going to get better again.

But Moran's mouth formed a sinister smile as he described how the "wimp period" turned into the second and final stage of post-breakup the "get-even" stage. So, there came a time in the Days After Susan when Moran the Wimp turned into Moran the Avenger. He told This Guy Named Bob and Tony from the Bronx how he would stand in the darkness outside Susan's apartment. He would wait until she left; and, when he saw that the coast was clear, he would climb the fire escape, open the window that he knew she always kept, unlocked, and crawl inside. "I'd be sitting there when she came home," Moran said with a leer.

"It drove her crazy. Once she came home with another guy and I was sitting there." Tony stopped Moran in mid-conversation for a question. "Isn't that just a bit like breaking and entering, Moran?" Probably so, Moran said, and being a respectable guy like he is, he didn't think he was capable of such a thing. But, he explained, there is no control over the "get-even" stage. Fortunately, ex-lovers don't call the cops unless it gets out of hand.

Most important, when the "get- me," Moran said to Tony, who agreed, but said the whole thing made h'm feel better. This Guy Named Bob had been silent for a while. "You know, I did the same thing." nER NAME WAS Susan. A A childhood sweetheart who fcJ had returned to Bob's affections in his mid-30s, a dream come true. After four years, it turned into a sudden nightmare, and the dumping had occurred recently.

One evening as he stopped his car at a Queens traffic light, This Guy Named Bob looked over at the car stopped next to him. It was Susan," with Susan's boss. Bob snapped. Images crept into his brain, the ones that drive men crazy, the images of their woman with another man. How long had this been going on? Had she been with him when things were supposedly still good with them? He went home, but couldn't sleep.

He got back in his car in the pre dawn hours, "drove to Susan's house, parked outside, and waited with the images of what was going on inside, sending his blood pressure to previously unknown heights. The boss left after breakfast. Bob knocked on Susan's door two seconds later. "I really told her off," Bob told Moran and Tony. Moran shook his head.

So did Tony. "It's still the wimp stage," Moran said. Tony nodded in agreement. This Guy Named Bob finally agreed. He still was talking about the break-up too much.

The images were still in his head. Women don't understand that men can hurt just like they do. "Revenge," Moran was saying. "That's the next stage. Then it's all better after that." Tony nodded.

This Guy Named Bob thought about it. "You guys are right. It hurts too much. Now let me think. "Bullfeathers," Mo ran from Bay Ridge was saying to This Guy Named Bob from Woodside and Tony from the Bronx.

Moran had met This Guy Named Bob at a party. He already knew Tony, who is a friend of Bob's for 18 years. The three became instant Musketeers, a change solidified in part by the consumption of copious amounts of alcohol. But there was a manly rapport there for several other reasons. All three are 37 years old.

Their teenage memories referred to the same era. Although from different boroughs, the three knew the same types of friends from their youth. Eventually, though, the three found the real common ground women. In particular, the ones who seem to be made for you and then make an exit stage left, leaving you with an aching heart and wondering what the heck happened. Between Moran and Tony, there had been a total of four marriages that came and went.

Both had been single, though, for seven years or so. This Guy Named Bob had managed to stay single, but had been involved with women long enough to know what the other Musketeers were talking about. As the party progressed and the consumption of alcohol became even greater, the three took a tally of the number of women in their lives. It was a manly figure, roughly 300, give or take a score of lies. "Bullfeathers," Moran was saying in response to a reference to the cruelty that women are capable of when seeking revenge against the dumpings-on of the opposite sex.

"Nothing beats what we go through, or what we're capable of," he said, and then he recalled the events surrounding his break-up with a knock-out named Susan. Susan had made Moran's pores BE IN a subway station early in the morning, and I'd call and leave the phone off the hook if there was no answer so it would be ringing when she got home with the bum," Tony said. Sometimes he would call the bartender and hang up. "That sounds a little criminal to TIS2 VJ. Uat4 P.

iilkir hospital with scapegoating i nurses etiarg stead of using almost eight gallons of water a minute for a shower, this device cuts the flow down to under three gallons a minute." Morris said that he has received his order of several thousand of the water savers and will give them away free to anyone who stops at his store and asks for one. rTAFF NURSES STAGED a demonstration outside the City Hospital Center at ii Elmhurst on Wednesday to protest what they called the "scapegoating" of a nurse by hospital officials. The action was prompted by the hospital's decision to charge the nurse with four counts of "misconduct" and "gross incompetence" stemming from an accident last month in which a patient was injured, according to a statement issued by the New York State Nurses Association. The nurses' group asserted that the hospital should be held accountable for the patient's in-1 juries and charged that the hospital failed to provide adequate nursing coverage for its patients. City to repave Bayside Terrace streets Repaving of the axle-rattling streets of Bayside Terrace in northeastern Queens could begin by year's end, now that the city has laid claim to seven formerly private roadways, officials said last Monday.

Borough President Donald Manes has issued ownership claims for 15th, 16th, 18th and 23d and 211th, 212th, and Corporal Kennedy Sts. Under state lav, the city is able to claim streets that have been used as thoroughfares for at least 10 years. Bayside Terrace, composed mostly of coopera-'-tive and condominium buildings, was developed 30 years ago by the Cord Meyer Co. Plumbing firm helps conserve water Responding quickly to last week's plea by Mayor Koch for city residents to do everything they can to conserve water, a Queens Village plumbing-supply firm has been giving away water-. saving devices.

Melvin Morris, owner of the Clearview Plumbing and Heating Supply at 213-17 Jamaica said the device is a half-inch diameter rubber disk with a cone top and three tiny holes through which water 'flaws His son, Peter, explained, "The flow of water is reduced, but the pressure remains the same. In CO co in CD Deal reached on controversial bus line Middle Village residents and officials of the Triborough Coach Corp. reached a compromise yesterday in the controversial rerouting of the Q-45 bus line. The agreement calls for Q45 to extend its run several blocks and eliminate the objectionable turn onto residential 79th St. The bus firm has agreed to continue its run south down 80th to Juniper Valley Road North.

It then would make several turns and come back to 80th St, where it would turn north and return to its terminus in Jackson Heights. New traffic signals for neighborhood New traffic signals will be installed and missing ones will be replaced on Spencer between Bell and Springfield Councilman Sheldon Leffler (D-Hollis) has been informed by the city Traffic Department Breath device ruled admissible A computerized breath-analysis device, which is said to be more reliable than other devices in nailing drunken drivers, is admissible as evidence in Queens County courtrooms, according to a written ruling issued last week by Supreme Court Justice Vincent Naro. Queens District Attorney John Santucci hailed the ruling, and said the device, called an Intoxito-meter 3000, "will help police and prosecutors employ this advanced technology in the campaign combat drunken It was the first time a city court has ruled on the sdmissibility of the Intoximeter..