"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> 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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>>>>> 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


Honestly, my grandma wouldn't have cared, she used to make us kids those
little pie thingies all the time and not once did she ever want to watch us
"choke." I picture this lady as the grandma that would watch her grandson
choke, with other granchildren calling her to laugh about it. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760uy8Oa_XM