On 11/10/2018 1:54 AM, Cheri wrote:
> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>>> I remember my grandma playing a joke on one of my older boy cousins.
>>>> She was fixing to bake pies. She always saved her jar lids and used
>>>> them to make little pies for us kids. She told my cousin that he had
>>>> better not get into the sugar because if he did, he wouldn't get his
>>>> own pie. Then she took me outside where she was watering the flowers
>>>> by her front door. She told me that he'd be out in no time flat,
>>>> choking. I asked her why? She just told me to wait a minute and I'd
>>>> see.
>>>>
>>>> Sure enough came flying out the door, gagging and coughing. That's
>>>> when she told us that the white pile of powder sitting on the waxed
>>>> paper was flour and not sugar!
>>>
>>>
>>> Wow, sounds like the grandma from Hell.
>>
>> No. That would be the other one. She just got sick of him getting into
>> the sugar.
>
> I don't care, what kind of grandma does that? Goes to the trouble to set
> a trap for her grandson, and then takes you outside to watch him
> choking? Great memories of dear old grandma are not her goal obviously.
>
> Cheri
>
My grandmother would have just told us to stay the hell out of her
kitchen. Then again, it would never have occurred to any of us
grandchildren to eat a pile of white sugar. I'm pretty sure we would
have been able to tell the difference between sugar and flour, too. I
sincerely doubt this tall tale.

Jill