My tongue exaggerates

The Historical picture of the day:

Joseph O'Conner truant, selling 'Extras' during school hours.

Tonight: Exaggeration and Krispy K

Mama said I exaggerated. I always was a story teller! I can remember the first tooth that I lost, the gap felt like a four lane highway. But when I looked in the mirror, it was little. Even my tongue exaggerates.

Right now, I have a little splinter I mean ‘minute’ so small I still cannot see it with a big magnifier. I use a needle and alcohol and dig around until I find it.

I don’t have false teeth, but folks that do say something the size of a grain of sand feels huge.  A small gravel in my shoe feels like a 5 pound rock.

I have found that most of the things I/we worry about actually never happen.  They loom LARGE, make us feel so small, then they are gone. Most things we worry about, never happen or are not as bad as our minds built them up to be. Our minds EXAGGERATE!

Now to something more palatable.  I found it hard to believe we have twice this year lived within walking distance of a Krispy Kreme donut place.  You know the ones with the RED  sign. The red that means they are hot and being made at this instant, and did not go in.  Yeah, not just a place that sells them but one that makes them. The one that runs them under that liquid shower of sweet glaze that I would have loved to have been under as a kid. That changed yesterday.

We walked over. I had two glazed donuts and Sherry had a chocolate covered crème filled pastry (They ain’t donuts, donuts have holes in’em). The price w/coffee was $7.12. 

That hurts your mind when you remember when they were $1.00 a dozen, coffee was $.10 and a Pepsi was a nickel.   I am not fussing, I have paid it before.  Just saying I am getting older than I ever thought I would.

KK was born July 1937. Just before Sherry and I. Last year they were around the world and US alone revenue was over a half billion $.

Side note: Just finished Lescroart's "The Keeper", if you like a mystery novel with twists and turns, give it a shot. If you do or did, did you know the killer until the last?  I sure didn't that one was out of left field.  Good read.

Nite Shipslog

PS:  Little known facts about the USA, from Cousin Tony:

In 1943, the temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota jumped 49 degrees in two minutes, one of the most drastic changes on record.

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This ford was brand new and this girl was not born when KrispyKreme was born.