Saturday, March 22, 2008

An Egg-streamly Funny Story


So, Kathy has our niece Joanna over to color some (hard boiled) Easter eggs, an old family tradition. I think it comes from the days when her Irish ancestors didn't have enough eggs to go around for everyone to eat, so they used to mix in pebbles from the local creek. If you colored the eggs, the kids were none the wiser whether they were eating pebbles or eggs. Kids are dumb like that...
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Anyhow, I digress. To continue, Kathy buys 4 dozen eggs...3 dozen to color, and 1 dozen for use throughout the week in her continuing quest to get my cholesterol up over the 300 mark. She invites her family over to color..The Queen Mother, The Queen, and the rest of the clan. They color up a storm all afternoon, and make frankly, some beautiful eggs (as evidenced above). Everyone takes 1/2 dozen eggs home so they have hard-boiled eggs for lunch during the week.
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Exit Sunday...Tuesday morning I get up and go to make an omlette for breakfast. I pull the dozen eggs out, go to crack one, and, huh, it's hard boiled. Ok, whatever. So, I go to crack another one...hard boiled also. I test the rest of the dozen, and they're all hard boiled. So, I go have some cheerios instead.
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When Kathy gets up, I ask her, "Why did you keep a whole dozen hard boiled eggs, but no fresh eggs?". Loooong pause. Then "Oh, CRAP..."
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And THAT's how the O'Sullivan's had egg all over themselves at their lunches that week :-)
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"I am the eggman, coocooachoo" Lumpy out

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