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A couple of weeks ago I had lunch with my parents and my brother brought his family, too. G, the eldest is nearly-nine, B is six and a half, and L is two. G and B were sitting together directly opposite me, and I was engaged in conversation with the chatterbox - B. We'd just gotten to the cookies part of lunch when G had to leave the table for some reason known only to her.
She had chosen a chocolate almond biscotti cookie and before she got up she quickly licked it, said "nobody touch that!" and put it back on her plate. Of course B was going to be a little shit and "stole" G's cookie (she only held it, because biscotti is not her favorite, and she already had a cookie she was eating, she only stole it to get at her older sister - plus, ew, G licked it!).
G came back and was all "where's my cookie?" and B giggled and handed back to her.
Now the reason G licked it was a story she'd heard from her Papa, my brother. When M (my brother) was in High School, he was on the track team, and the team would go out together. At one of those times, they were at a pizza place for some kind of meal (teenage boy athletes, it could have been second lunch or first dinner for all I know - they were ALWAYS hungry) and one of the boys got a plate of spaghetti. When he went to pick up his food, his was the first food ready, and the whole table was staring hungrily at his meal when he realized he didn't have a fork on the tray. Seeing his meal in jeopardy, he spit onto the top of his spaghetti and mixed it in with a finger before leaving the table to find a fork.
The whole table cracked up when other diners sitting nearby commented (I believe it was a couple of older women) "Did you SEE that? That boy just spit into his food! Oh my God" etc. etc. etc. As hungry as they were, none of the other boys at the table were willing to steal his meal and he got back with his fork to an unmolested plate.
It has been a family story for so long (my brother has a great ear for voices and his imitation of the two women is pretty awesome). And I just had it told to me again by my nieces who giggled the whole way through. M was vaguely embarrassed when I mentioned G had learned the lesson so well, she had licked her cookie before leaving the table. Ah, family!
She had chosen a chocolate almond biscotti cookie and before she got up she quickly licked it, said "nobody touch that!" and put it back on her plate. Of course B was going to be a little shit and "stole" G's cookie (she only held it, because biscotti is not her favorite, and she already had a cookie she was eating, she only stole it to get at her older sister - plus, ew, G licked it!).
G came back and was all "where's my cookie?" and B giggled and handed back to her.
Now the reason G licked it was a story she'd heard from her Papa, my brother. When M (my brother) was in High School, he was on the track team, and the team would go out together. At one of those times, they were at a pizza place for some kind of meal (teenage boy athletes, it could have been second lunch or first dinner for all I know - they were ALWAYS hungry) and one of the boys got a plate of spaghetti. When he went to pick up his food, his was the first food ready, and the whole table was staring hungrily at his meal when he realized he didn't have a fork on the tray. Seeing his meal in jeopardy, he spit onto the top of his spaghetti and mixed it in with a finger before leaving the table to find a fork.
The whole table cracked up when other diners sitting nearby commented (I believe it was a couple of older women) "Did you SEE that? That boy just spit into his food! Oh my God" etc. etc. etc. As hungry as they were, none of the other boys at the table were willing to steal his meal and he got back with his fork to an unmolested plate.
It has been a family story for so long (my brother has a great ear for voices and his imitation of the two women is pretty awesome). And I just had it told to me again by my nieces who giggled the whole way through. M was vaguely embarrassed when I mentioned G had learned the lesson so well, she had licked her cookie before leaving the table. Ah, family!
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