MaryMary
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I am sorry to hear that. Hugs... {{Owdboggy}} Hmm...what about... a kiss on the cheek and something sweet from the kitchen?
If it helps... Mom always said that that book was "written by someone who really understood that children like to poke dead things with a stick." (It was that little bit of horror that got me. He had bad manners, to be sure, but...
he wants to eat the postman! )The concept of poking something with a stick to see what it does came up in a different thread recently, and that was why I decided to post this thread!
I do love this forum.
My poor mother.
We would spend a week or two every summer with my grandad. One summer, my sister showed me how to hold batteries on the sides of a dead frog's head and make its feet kick. I was awed. Three days later, our parents came to pick us up...and I took my mother traipsing down to the creek to see the "Science."
I knew she wouldn't go if she knew what it really was, so I told her it was a surprise. Sadly, it didn't work as well.
She was not impressed.
We would spend a week or two every summer with my grandad. One summer, my sister showed me how to hold batteries on the sides of a dead frog's head and make its feet kick. I was awed. Three days later, our parents came to pick us up...and I took my mother traipsing down to the creek to see the "Science."
I knew she wouldn't go if she knew what it really was, so I told her it was a surprise.
Sadly, it didn't work as well. She was not impressed.
