Ooops! Busted!
Years ago when I was a child I used to go to the grocery store with my Mom. Barrels sat around the store filled with pickles, loose crackers, and huge containers from which lard was dispensed. This was a small country store. One morning my mom and I went to the store to purchase a few groceries. In the store was an elderly woman asking to buy three pounds of lard and have it put into an empty pail she was carrying. The son of the owner was minding the store while the father went to lunch. He stated "Miss Abigail, your pail will only hold two pounds." Miss Abigail looked at him as if he were simple minded and said " Where is your daddy? He has been putting three pounds of lard in this pail for the last five years!!!!"
Originally published November 14, 2002.
