On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:15:04 -0500, Andy wrote:

> Kate Connally said...
>
>> Oh, Jill, that is so sad? Why don't you eat corn?
>
> In Pop's last years we once served corn on the cob. He objected saying he
> couldn't eat it. Alarmed, I asked "why?"
>
> He said that he couldn't digest it because it came out in his poop.
>
> He was a corn eating champ in our respective youths.
>
> "Pop, that's perfectly normal. Nature of the beast!"
>
> With question marks in his eyes, looking at my wife and I, us nodding, you
> could see years of worry wash away. We laughed at him, endearingly. He ate
> corn from then on.
>
> It was one of a handful of fond "Pop, I told you so!" memories.
>
> Teaching him how to use an Apple Mac computer was another.
>
> Best,
>
> Andy

don't you people chew your food?

blake