"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.

He might have thought it was powdered sugar. I don't know. I knew the
difference even at that age. I think I was 3 or 4.