The Old Man and the Popcorn
Many years ago my mother and I had been in town shopping. We were going to ride the bus home. In the bus station they had a popcorn machine similar to the one in the picture above. The old man operating the machine looked very much like the old man in the other picture above.
My mother and I decided to get a bag of popcorn to eat while we waited for the bus.
It was a very bright, sunny day and the sun was coming in the large front window and shining on the popcorn machine and the old man.
As we were sharing the popcorn the old man started a new batch of popcorn in the machine and was standing near us as he worked. Suddenly, the old man coughed a deep hacking cough that lasted for a couple of minutes. We were shocked to see the spray from his mouth as he coughed fly into the popcorn machine and all over the popcorn!
We stopped eating the popcorn and tried to keep from getting sick. That was the end of our popcorn feast! We never bought any more popcorn from that old man!
posted by kyra lafain @ 5/05/2009 12:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
Many years ago, when Daddy had a laundry route, he wouldn't eat at any of the restaurants in town. He said if you saw the kitchens, you wouldn't want to eat there. Every now and then, GA asks the health department inspector, "Where's good to eat?" just to check on things.
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