re: #37 Eventual Carrion

My mom took 2nd at the county fair this year for quilting. She has gotten 2 firsts before and this is her 3rd 2nd.

I have a friend who enters pies for judging at the MN State Fair every year. The one year that he asked me to drive him and his pie entry to the fairgrounds, his first pie hadn’t turned out perfectly so he quickly baked another one that stil wasn’t quite ready to come out of the oven with 20 minutes left to meet the deadline. He left it in the oven until the last possible moment, then we took off using all of the shortcuts that I knew to get to the fairground. We were actually on the entance road to the fairground when I suddenly thought I’d missed a turn and tapped on the brakes without thinking. My friend lurched forward, followed by a splat on the floor of my Ranger, and after a moment of stunned silence, my friend started laughing while I was just about ready to cry, I felt so bad.

Not all of the pie had hit the floor mat, so a lot of it was still edible, so I spent the next 15 minutes picking at the remains of a most delicious cherry pie from the floor of my truck. Yum.