The three red apples - for the sake of this story - are representative of Me, My Granddaddy and Max.
There's two things I fondly remember about my Granddaddy:
1. He too was a writer, a poet. What, you've never heard of him and his Pulitzer Peace Prize - An Ode To Farts. And he recited it with great pride at any and EVERY family gathering.
2. His waffles.
I really miss the waffles is all I'm sayin.
Tonight, we are having dinner. All sitting around the table. I even made pudding with whipped cream AND heath bar bits. Not to mention, once a week, they get to watch tv while eating dinner. So, we finish watching Wizards of Waverly Place - my personal favorite, because that Selena Gomez chick got her start on Barney. We know this because she was the only kid worth a flip who didn't overact or have a pre-pubescent mustache. So, we like her and that show. They do magic on the show - thus the Wizards part of Wizards of Waverly Place.
The show ends, and Ricardo strikes up a conversation with the kids, "If you could have magical powers for just one thing, what would it be?"
Lucy, chimes in immediately with "I would make the whole world...." And then she actually stops to think about it. I'm guessing while she's thinking that perhaps she'll take the beauty pageant pick and say something like, "I would make the whole world get along. ...And really skinny."
She keeps thinking, and says again: "I would make the whole world...."
"FART???" Max says in the sweetest most curious way ever known to mankind.
I startled the children from laughing so hard, so loud and for so long. I could not stop laughing. Because apparently, if Max had magical powers, he'd make the whole world fart.
Max and Granddaddy never met. I'm guessing he's laughing as hard as I just did from up above. Fifty bucks says one of my aunts or uncles cites the Fart poem in the comments. I dare ya...
That's how I roll.
