A lesson not learned...
It's surprising how I can remember this so well after all this time...

Many years ago, when I was only about four years old, my Nan was babysitting me on a particularly nice summer's day. I had spend most of my time running around the small back-garden, and not causing any trouble.

As a treat, my Nan decided to get me a chocolate dessert pot out of the 'fridge. It would have been the size of any regular yoghurt pot that you find in the supermarkets these days, but to a four-year-old me, it looked huge. Being a sensible Nan, she was only going to let me have about half of the pot, as it was a rich dessert. I was never the sort of child who screams and stamps their feet "I WANT! I WANT! I WANT!" ad infinitum when they don't get what they want - quite the contrary, in fact, but on this occasion my eyes were bigger than my stomach. I just had to have the rest of that delicious, smooth, chocolaty pot of heaven...

Soon, I went into full tantrum mode, stamping my feet and so on.

"No, Stevie, you'll get an upset tummy."

"I WANT IT! I WON'T BE SICK! I PROMISE!"

This went on for a little while, and soon enough, my Nan decided to let me have it. She knew it would make me feel sick, and I get the feeling she wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.

My little hands clamped around that pot as tight as I could manage, I was like Indiana Jones grasping that golden idol in Raiders of the Lost Ark - I beamed a grin so wide as I fumbled for the spoon and proceeded to shovel spoonful’s of that sickly-sweet chocolate dessert onto my maw.

It didn't take long for me to realise that Nan was right. I didn't want to say anything, but my gut had decided it didn't like me. It was very angry, indeed.

My Nan learnt more of a lesson that day than I did, having now spent twenty minutes frantically scrubbing chocolaty vomit out of the carpet. I know I certainly haven't learn a jot, and have since bitten off more than I can chew on more occasions than I can remember...
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 11:35, 1 reply)

Bam!
In your face (carpet) Steve's nan
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:37, closed)