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Date Posted: 19:47:10 06/07/10 Mon
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debikm
Subject: Aprons and movie trailers
In reply to: Debi 's message, "A wee spark o' inspiration..." on 08:47:17 05/29/10 Sat

Mama's baking in the kitchen. I'm helping, and since I'm helping, I get to wear her apron. It's blue and has flowers on it and it wraps around me twice. The kitchen is small and narrow but I pull a chair up to the sink so I can reach and stir the brownie stuff. I feel big and smart since I could read most of the words on the paper that told us how to make the brownies. I stir and stir until my arms get tired and Mama tells me I did a real good job. Then she takes the bowl to pour the brownie stuff in a pan so they can bake. I get down from the chair and go in the living room. There's an old movie on TV, a black and white movie with a big old monkey in it, climbing up the side of a building. As I watch, I see something on the apron, coming up out of the pocket.

A bug.

A GIANT bug, as big as a SugarBaby, coming out of the pocket and crawling up my chest.

I scream.

Mom thought the monkey on the building was scaring me.

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[> [> Very nice. I can almost smell the brownies. -- Fi, 09:14:47 06/09/10 Wed

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[> [> What ever happened to aprons? >>> --

Page, 17:03:11 06/14/10 Mon

My mom always wore an apron, too, and you just don't see them anymore. I also knew immediately what a SugarBaby was, and you don't see those anymore, either. I guess they finally figured out giving kids blobs of caramel-flavored sugar wasn't the best idea. *G* But the bug! *shiver* I'd have lost my mind!

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[> [> [> LOL Page! -- Debi, 18:25:36 06/14/10 Mon

>My mom always wore an apron, too, and you just don't
>see them anymore. I also knew immediately what a
>SugarBaby was, and you don't see those anymore,
>either. I guess they finally figured out giving kids
>blobs of caramel-flavored sugar wasn't the best idea.
>*G* But the bug! *shiver* I'd have lost my mind!

I was thinking of you when I wrote that true story. Today, bugs are gross but I don't freak. Growing up in Florida either makes you completely neurotic about bugs or you acclimate. I just smash the nasty critters.

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