I am a fairly suspicious, untrusting person
but my best friend is not.

She'll believe anything you tell her, anything at all, as long as you convey the information in a confident manner and manage to keep a straight face. So easy is she to fool, in fact, that the rest of us have a game where we invent a 'fact', then try to outdo each other to see what she'll believe.

My current top score was achieved when I convinced her that grits (the cooked, ground corn served for breakfast in the American South) come from a tree. They grow in a large pod, rather like a cacao pod, you see, and when the pod ripens it's picked, sliced and the grits are scraped out, sort of like you do with a vanilla bean. The resulting raw ingredients are then dried before packing so they won't spoil or clump up during shipping.

Eventually, I had to clue her in. It was just cruel to let it go on; cruel and entirely too easy.


Ooh, remembered another one -- I had her believing that alpaca are like koala, and they live in the trees of Peru's mighty forests. I tell you, it's far too easy. There's almost no sport in it!
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 4:48, Reply)