•9:37 PM
February 20, 2011 9:37 p.m.
If you buy a boy a package of freeze-dried Ramen noodle soup
When you get home from evening service,
pretty soon he’ll put it inside the microwave oven and press the button.
If he presses the button, he’ll go off to play and forget that he didn’t add water.
While you are sitting in the kitchen, you’ll begin to hear a hissing and crackling sound,
Whereupon you will open the door of the microwave -- just in time..
..To allow stiflingly rank smoke to fill the kitchen.
Entirely.
And when it fills the kitchen, pretty soon the smoke will fill the entire house,
And your family will run around opening windows and doors
And turning on exhaust fans.
After that, everybody will be driven outside, eyes watering and gasping for fresh air
to the breezeway to enjoy a leisurely Sunday evening supper, what’s left of it.
Even the dog will not want to be in the house.
And the rest of the evening you will want to spend outdoors;
The night, too.
And your boy will end up practicing his violin for all the neighbors to hear
Outside underneath the stars, amidst a chorus of barking neighborly dogs,
And he will soon work up another appetite,
And after his practice is over, pretty soon,
He will request another Ramen soup.
-- Anonymous
If you buy a boy a package of freeze-dried Ramen noodle soup
When you get home from evening service,
pretty soon he’ll put it inside the microwave oven and press the button.
If he presses the button, he’ll go off to play and forget that he didn’t add water.
While you are sitting in the kitchen, you’ll begin to hear a hissing and crackling sound,
Whereupon you will open the door of the microwave -- just in time..
..To allow stiflingly rank smoke to fill the kitchen.
Entirely.
And when it fills the kitchen, pretty soon the smoke will fill the entire house,
And your family will run around opening windows and doors
And turning on exhaust fans.
After that, everybody will be driven outside, eyes watering and gasping for fresh air
to the breezeway to enjoy a leisurely Sunday evening supper, what’s left of it.
Even the dog will not want to be in the house.
And the rest of the evening you will want to spend outdoors;
The night, too.
And your boy will end up practicing his violin for all the neighbors to hear
Outside underneath the stars, amidst a chorus of barking neighborly dogs,
And he will soon work up another appetite,
And after his practice is over, pretty soon,
He will request another Ramen soup.
-- Anonymous
3 comments:
Does dear daughter have an easy bake oven? Admonish her severely to never, ever, EVER use those pans in the microwave. If you learn from this error that I made, then you won't have to buy a new one after the easy bake cake fails.
Ah, the fun stories our children give us.
Just one word - boys!
I know, I have one...
Oh, I meant to ask, did you get the email that Calvert's offering a 30% discount on their curriculum? I have ordered 7th grade, even though we don't need it for about 7 months. It was a $300 discount, and I couldn't let that pass.
Marjie