Overheard in My Kitchen

[Gita]

Mother-in-law: I've cut back on smoking.

Her Son: Mother, I want to talk to you about something, since you are on a fixed income.

Mother-in-law: Uh-oh.

Her Son: It's time you switched to chewing tobacco. After you chew, you put the wad on a window sill to dry out and the next day, you use it again. Just, you know,  don't try to use it a third time because that would be nasty.

[Kristine_ES]

i would enjoy this more if i could just get the taste of powdery white windowsill paint out of my mouth

koff koff blehhhh.... (truth tastes worse than fiction?) ;) 

[Jeanette Cheezum]

HAHA  SNORT, OMG, DISGUTING ISN'T THE WORD.

[Gita]

@Ed: now that you mention it, there was some discussion about Bugler rolling papers.

@ Jenny: sometimes I think I'm in a Blue Collar Comedy tour around here.

[Edward Dean]

Now if he was real frugal he would have suggested on third day, she shred it and roll it in a Zig zag and smoke it!:)

Funny piece Gita.

[Bill Floyd]

Is it time for an awful confession?  I used to dip Copenhagen, and sometimes was so broke I'd reuse a plug.  I quit about 4 of years ago after dipping for nearly 23 years.  I love that it was the son-in-law who had this conversation with her.

[Mike Handley]

Thanks for the laugh, G. I do so love it when somebody GETS my sense of humor. Are you married?

[Jenny]

Hahaha! A third time nasty? Love your tag "this is my life".  Very down home. Clever delivery with the characters names as in a play. Tennesee Williams would have approved.

[Angela]

"Uh-oh" is a universal dead giveaway that something real is about to take place. Well, at least she's not scrounging through the ashtrays, squeezing the tobacco out of everyone else's butts, and chawin' on that.  Fun six, Gita.

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

At some point, some grown children think they have a right to comment and even control their parents' lives.  It is at this point that parents need to set up strict boundaries with real consequences for stepping over the line.  Excellent dialogue that shows, not tells.