At a restaurant, my mother-in-law found a plastic shard in her scrambled eggs. She’s not squeamish — she’s of hardy ranch stock — so the talk about this two-inch-long intruder was very calm and centered more on origin than the “ewww” factor.
We all speculated about how the shard got in the eggs, then our 20-year-old son, the hippie, somberly said: “I just feel sorry for the chicken.”
Har.
- Our pals over at The Hot Air Quarterly, Shasta County’s Independent Literary Journal, have published their summer issue and you can pick one up in all the usual places — Redding Library, certain cool coffeehouses — or get one by clicking here. Lovely cover art by Raette Meredith. Writing by Clark Beek, Larry Greco Harris, Peter Wright, Roy Reddin, Wistar Watts Murray, Jim Dowling, Sharon Brisolara, Hal White and Celeste White.
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