Lunch with the niece
Dave Smith wrote:
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> Dan Abel wrote:
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> > Oh cmon, George, don't destroy our fun! BN (Big Niece) is an
> > institution on this group. I'll never forget the story about the five
> > dozen cookies. It was the holidays, and he needed to bake them in
> > advance, but BN was coming, so he put them in an anonymous box and hid
> > them where nobody could *ever* find them. After she left, he dug out
> > the box. It was empty!
>
> Slight correction. It was not a holiday. It was just an ordinary
> weekend, and I bake cookies cookies every week or two. Because she was
> coming, and because she was coming, I made a double batch. My wife was
> upset about that because BN , about 16 at the time, was supposed to be
> on a diet, I had to hide them. I put the cookie tins in the back corner
> of the bottom shelf of a kitchen cupboard so that she would not be
> tempted. And indeed, when I went for a cookie after she left, they were
> all gone, an entire double batch of chocolate chip cookies, about 5 dozen.
>
> To make matters worse, I had baked an apple pie for dessert because my
> brother and his wife were coming for dinner. When I got the pie out for
> dessert I was stunned to find that she had sampled it. Not just a little
> slice or even a serving..... she had eaten a hole in the middle of it,
> about 6 inches across.... in a 9 inch pie pan. She left a ring around
> the outside about an inch and a half wide.
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