VOXX Column February 2017 - Standards Adjustment
Standards
adjustment
It is absolutely
okay to eat food from the floor. Yes, I am in agreement that my standards may
have lowered slightly since having my son. But that’s okay because I bagged
myself extra toast. Or more accurately I could say I retrieved my stolen
toast….
It was a Monday.
Perhaps that explains it. I had been serving food all morning and felt that I
was on the verge of passing out. Starvation had come painfully close. My
stomach wasn’t growling, it was howling. My ribs were peeking through, past my
normally podgy abdomen. So then it happened. I stooped to an all-time low…
I buttered myself some
toast. It was perfect. Warm enough for the butter to soak deliciously into the
bread, leaving a trail of gold across my plate. No burns. No half chewed edges.
Simple, pure perfection. Straight from the toaster. Then, I added some marmalade.
It glittered as I placed it on the table.
Two thieving hands
grabbed my plate as I turned to close the stairgate. Two already fed,
nutritionally balanced beautifully rosy hands…
In a mad dash of
panic, my iron deficient legs wobbled. I stumbled across the room, pale and
aghast as I reached my toast. I managed to rescue it, well within five seconds.
I looked it over and couldn’t quite see any invisible
germs…
I didn’t lick the
floor. The lost marmalade did look good, but that would have to go down the
sink. I could only imagine having enough time on my hands to spoon up the extra
marmalade. Why would I want to do that when instead I could have two sticky
feet walking through it instead?
Walking it around
the room, through the kitchen, and up the stairs…
Wait,
is that marmalade on the ceiling?
Boneata Bell
As seen in Voxx Magazine: www.voxxonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/VOXX62.pdf
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