Every picture tells a story, don't it...

[charliesmum]

So we're just about to pull into our driveway when husband lets out a yell. "A present just fell of that car in front of us!" he said. our road is a fairly busy, two lane deal, that gets travelled quite frequently, just FYI.

We park our car and trot down the road to see what fell and if it could be salvaged. I had visions of putting up a sign saying 'if you lost a present on this road call...' or something. When we got to the scene of the, er, incident. This met our eyes:




"It just flew right off the roof of the car," my husband said, shaking his head.

It is fairly easy to surmise what happened. A family is getting ready to travel to their relative's home, probably in Philadelphia, bringing their annual Anise cookies, lovingly garnished with Hershey's Kisses.

So there they are, getting all the presents and kids and things in their mini-van and someone puts the cookies on the roof of the car for a moment, possibly to wrestle with a stuck seat belt or something, and the cookies are, alas, forgotten until gravity takes its course and sends them splattering onto the street.



I wonder if they will ever know what happened?

"Where are the cookies? I thought you brought them out?"

"I did, I know I did."

"Well, they're not here now."

"Okay, so maybe I left them at home."

Possibly they will live in blissful ignorance forever that the cookies were abandoned on the top of the car. I hope so, for that person's sake, because I'm sure the family will never let him forget it.

I know I wouldn't.

Comments

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

My mom did that with her purse once. We got half way to my grandma's house before another car pulled us over to tell us.

It was 17 years ago, and we still tell that story. ^_^

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

Or her. That's the kind of thing I do.

[teh-dale.livejournal.com]

LOL! We had a set of keys ride 115 miles on the roof of our car once. How they didn't fall off at highway speeds I'll never know.

Looking at those pictures...The carnage! The humanity! It's just so..."Blood On the Interstate"...or one of those other cautionary videos they showed us during Driver's Ed.

[meadowrue.livejournal.com]

Let's see, I've done that with a camera, a coffee mug and Jared's art project from preschool. Man I'm a wreck. I love it. I can just hear that conversation.

[zambonigirl.livejournal.com]

Reuters-24-12-05

Rick Teasdale was found murdered in his bed last night, apparently killed by his wife.

"He ate all the cookies!" Jean Teasdale, suspected murderess shouted as SWAT members ushered her away under cover of darkness. "Those were for my mother! That cocky-doodie man!"

"The woman is babbling incoherrently," Police Cheif Jim Garner said. "All I can make out is that Mrs. Teasdale spent all day yesterday baking and decorating cookies 'just the way her mother likes', only to have arrived at her mother's house sans cookies."

Investigation into where the cookies have gone is under way.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Hey, pizzelles! I just made some of those yesterday!

Lol, don't think those are mine, though.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Pizzelles! Thank you. I couldn't think of the name of them to save my life.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

No prob. ^^ I got a bit confused at anise cookies, probably because my grandmother never put anise in them (my brother and I didn't like the taste). I put anise in mine, but you can never taste it! Lol, next time I might try putting in a shot of whiskey like the recipe says just to see how that turns out. :D

[purplemer3.livejournal.com]

I love that you ran out into the street to see this mysterious package, and brought your digital camera. And then proceeded to take photos of the crumbled cookies. That's just awesome.

Merry Christmas! (I did send a card. Hopefully it'll make it by the new year! lol)