Garden humor thread..

[Nyboy]

My grandmom once made dinner for my cousin and her husband. 2 years after she was still complaining how they showed up empty handed. Could have stopped at supermarket for Entenmann's pound cake.

 

[Smart Red]

Wow! Another Seinfeld reality! Should'a stopped for a marble rye or a wine.

My BFF's get upset with my (learned) habit of never returning an empty dish. Someone brings a meal or a dessert? Their dish must be returned with some meal or dessert of your own. Is that just something Mom did or is it a more normal habit than they make it seem? Anyone else do that?

 

[Nyboy]

Nope around here you return bowl empty and freshly washed. The cafe in town will use your own bowls if you want to pretend you made food. You drop off bowl in am.

 

[Ridgerunner]

We use non-returnable bowls, say if someone died or has a problem and we are just trying to help. If it is a situation where we can bring the bowl back with us at the end of the event we'll use better stuff. In either event they don't have to wash them.

 

[Nyboy]

I once had a client bring me homemade cookies on a china plate. She said don't worry about returning the plate, which I thought strange because it looked like good china. A few hours later another client came in looked at cookies and said Tracy made those. I was shocked she was right, when I asked how she knew she said it was her plate never returned back. Of course I gave her the plate.

 

[thistlebloom]

I once had a client bring me homemade cookies on a china plate. She said don't worry about returning the plate, which I thought strange because it looked like good china. A few hours later another client came in looked at cookies and said Tracy made those. I was shocked she was right, when I asked how she knew she said it was her plate never returned back. Of course I gave her the plate.

Now that's funny!

 

[ninnymary]

Wow! Another Seinfeld reality! Should'a stopped for a marble rye or a wine.

My BFF's get upset with my (learned) habit of never returning an empty dish. Someone brings a meal or a dessert? Their dish must be returned with some meal or dessert of your own. Is that just something Mom did or is it a more normal habit than they make it seem? Anyone else do that?

That's a a very thoughtful idea @Smart Red. Unfortunately I return the dish the same night but washed.

Mary

 

[so lucky]

My mom used to put her name on a piece of masking tape on the bottom of the bowl/dish. That way it had a better chance of getting back to her.

I had one big covered bowl that got left at Mom's so many times over the years she thought it was hers, even though we had the "ownership" discussion many times, with me reminding her that it was a Christmas gift from a neighbor/friend of mine. Finally one day she said "I want you to have that bowl when I move to assisted living." By then, I just said "OK, Mom."

 

[PennyJo]

That is my Brother he even drank gasoline

 

[Nyboy]

Penny Jo gasoline ?