Probably around the same year as the ear wax incident I coughed up what looked like a tiny little golf ball but a bit more off white in color. Maybe about two and a half peas in size. I smooshed it between my fingers. What ever it was smooshed with a consistency somewhere between peanut butter cookie dough and mashed potatoes. I can't remember if this happened around the same time as some illness or not. It smelled really bad too.
The first thing I can ever remember stealing was a match box car from my friend Jon Whitney. We were lying on his floor playing with cars and somehow I was able to grab the car I wanted with my toes, transfer it to my hand and into my pants pocket. I had exactly the same car at home. Why did I need to steal his. For years to come I'd see that car and think "I stole that from Jon Whitney, why?" I seem to recall seeing that car around well into my high school years, probably every time I had to clean my room I'd come across it.
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The Bedouins have a word for those little white nuggets, my friend, and it is "manna."
By the way, I'm totally into Tony C's new stat-o-riffic blog. Here's a pair of stats I found in this month's Harper's Index that is sure to send shockwaves through your comments field:
Estimated number of Marshmallow Peeps that will be consumed around Easter this month: 800,000,000
Estimated number of pigs who died to make them: 125,000
Sorry, but I thought the truth should be exposed...
Upton Sinclair the Third
I was wondering what idiot posted that comment, and I was hoping they were fibbing. I just found out it's who I'm married to.
Big K
Poor little piggies.
I was always fascinated with manna as a kid--I had this pictorial bible book and the people were so happy to be eating manna--and the manna was drawn to look like light-weight rocks. AHHHHHHH. They practically had a halo around them.
Ka
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