Smart Thoughts

Here are a few thoughts about things your parents may have told you. Again, maybe not as they wanted you to have the experience of learning the hard way. Besides, back then you weren’t paying attention because you already knew everything there was to know.

‘Casserole’ and ‘Vegetable soup’ are fancy words for when Mom cleaned out the refrigerator.

“Step on a crack and break your back.” Have you ever wondered how you could do that when you’d fall forward and bust your nose?

Do you remember when time, music, honey with butter on toast or biscuits, ice cream, forgiveness, a hug, or a Band Aid would heal all your hurts?

Most of us have attended a baptismal ceremony at one time or another – it made a deep impression. When you got home did you find that no matter how hard you tried, you can’t baptize a cat?

In home disasters often happen most someone is trying to be helpful. Canning time – seven quarts of green beans in the canner when the phone rang. My sister (7 or so) tried to help – put the lid on, lit the gas, and went out to play. She blew the pressure gage into the ceiling 9 feet off the kitchen floor. Mother was still finding dried snapped beans behind the icebox months later.

Maxims mother insisted you follow are truisms. When you go to town always put on clean step-ins as you might have to go to the hospital. Then the one she forgot to tell you, ‘Don’t wear purple polka-dot underwear under white shorts.’

Did anyone ever have to explain to Mom that no you hadn’t been playing in flour; just trying to score points with the teacher by dusting erasers after school?

No matter how many friends you have there is always room for one more, except on Facebook where you are limited to 5,000.

Popcorn – the ambrosia of movies, tv, and ballgames doused in salt, butter, caramel, chocolate, grated cheese, or whatever suits your fancy. Learning to do it over an open flame, on the burner on the kitchen range, or in the microwave is an art acquired over time. One thing is certain, popping popcorn without a lid isn’t smart.