push pop
a friend of mine from school won our "best reason for a trip to A&E" contest with this little encounter. when she was younger she had quite a sweet tooth and regularly applied all her childlike persistance in consuming as much as possible. naturally, this meant that she developed a hearty dedication in extracting ALL the candy sweetness from the latest playground craze- the push pop. you could never get the last bit out, it was stuck in the plastic thing and no amount of licking would finish it. so she sucked. she sucked and sucked and sucked and sucked. and found her lips were stuck. she went to the only person who fixes such things, her mum. two hours later, her mum had pulled and twisted and lubricated and yanked- to no avail. fatigue and the muffled cries of her offspring convinced mum that they must brave the trip to A&E, where the poor little girl had to sit for another two hours with her face stuck in a candy treat, enduring the stares and amused expressions of staff and patients alike.
(fubar, Thu 2 Sep 2004, 18:14, Reply)