pyroguysr's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scary Place THE SCARY PLACE AT MOM�S HOUSE What is it about mothers when they grow old? They do strange things like beginning to collect string, watch Matlock rerun�s for the 4,739th time and never, EVER throw anything away. My mom�s house has a scary place that I have to clean out each time I go there. Well, not just one... There are several scary places that need cleaning - but that will have to wait for her demise before we get to them. THE scary place is in the kitchen, though. It�s called the refrigerator. Mom eats like a bird now that she�s 83. Two bites from a sandwich, a nibble on some fries or a half-eaten chicken wing and she�s �full�... The rest goes into that black hole called the refrigerator. The trouble is, she doesn't like to eat "leftovers." I swear, every time I come home, I have to go through the ice box and just start chucking stuff. Things like a small remainder of bagged salad that is now a chocolate-brown mush, a 9 month old stalk of celery that looks like the remains of a ghoulish arm and a roast beef sandwich with enough mold on it to have developed feet. �Oh, don�t throw that away! I was going to eat it!� No, you weren�t, mom. �Why�d you throw the bread/coffee cake/donuts away?� They were turning green, mom. �There�s a steak in the freezer for you if you want it.� It was dated from July of this year... I bought it for her when I took her grocery shopping then. She managed to put a hole in the plastic wrap before putting it into the freezer. $7 worth of filet mignon goes into the trash.
2:52 p.m. - 2005-01-09 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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