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Dave Smith > wrote:

> If so, I hope she is coming to your place for Christmas and not
> mine. When we have the family for dinner we have to have double
> the amount of food served. She grazes along the buffet, consuming
> everything along the way. The last time she was here she parked
> herself next to a platter of devilled eggs and moved on when she
> had finished them off, then she went to the cheese platter where
> there was about 1/3 pound of each of a half dozen cheeses,
> polished them off and moved on to the next item.
>
> She once showed up at the home of her new stepsister,who was
> expecting guests. By the time the guests arrived, she had eaten
> all the food.

I know people similar to that. That's why, when I have a Christmas
Party, I serve six pounds of shrimp a pound and a half at a time and
four dozen deviled eggs twelve at a time. All with a polite pause while
eyeing the offending individual who is destroying the menu. I leave the
bulk of the food in the garage until I decide when it's needed. That's a
ploy. It may not work. It has for me so far.

leo

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