Which Shiny Beauty Is For Me?
Summer Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Shine!”
“No chance. Your ally’s on holiday.”
The Caped Crusader loves raw eggs and is always on hand to clean up accidental spillages. I have been glad of her services over the years.
Our egg store is in an awkward corner. If I slip when reaching in, any eggs that escape my grasp fall into an all-but-inaccessible corner. It’s one of the oldest parts of the house, and the reason for the awkwardly-stepped floor was probably clear to its creators 200 years ago but is a modern-day mystery. In practical terms, it creates an escape path for a broken egg that is almost impossible to get at. The one implement that can reach every corner is a canine tongue.
I only have to call next door and say the words, “I’ve dropped an egg.” and the Caped Crusader will break speed records to sprint to our house to carry out the clean-up operation.
It was when the family 4-year-old joined the team of egg collectors, another form of egg accident came onto the radar — 4-year-olds can be both careless and over-zealous in dealing with breakables, but they need to learn. We took the view that accidents will happen and didn’t worry too much until we saw breakages increasing alarmingly. The Caped Crusader had become proactive in her quest for eggs. She would follow as the newly collected eggs were conveyed from nest boxes to egg store and, at a strategic moment, would jog the 4-year-old elbow and generate a lucrative accident.
These days the 4-year-old has become a 5-year-old, and although accident frequency seemed to go down, egg numbers told a different story. We discovered that the 5-year-old, when stashing fresh eggs in the egg store, has been illicitly removing what she terms “an old egg” and feeding it to the Caped Crusader.
The 5-year-old is now on holiday, and I am the chief egg collector. Mean though it seems, I will not be persuaded by blandishments. I have decreed a no-egg diet. Occasional eggs are fine, but an egg a day is a bit much, and the Caped Crusader was getting portly.
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