"Mark Thorson" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> ... they're awfully deep. And potatoes? They're round. They roll.
>>
>> Sometimes, one will get away from you. Worst case scenario is you'll
>> smell them before you find them. Or maybe the worst is when they
>> start reaching out for you! Help me!!!
>
> The last potatoes in my fridge were some nice
> Yukon gold potatoes that I bought because they
> looked so good. I had them at the back of
> fridge for a long time, when suddenly I had
> a need for something where a potato would do,
> and I reached blindly behind all the stuff
> in front to grab the bag with the potatoes
> in them and . . . YAAAH! What's that?!?
>
> Turned out that the potatoes had sprouted
> and produced long thick roots, and I wasn't
> expecting that when I grabbed them.

(laugh!!) I think I would have screamed.

nancy