CHOCOLATE PUDDIN'

1-9-09...CHOCOLATE PUDDIN'

This little caper was brought to my memory yesterday and I have been pondering on it. Brenda and I played in a thicket between our homes. It was rather a special place to us. Secretive we thought. We had made a playhouse of sorts. Made a table from boards sitting on a 5 gal. bucket. Had chairs out of more buckets. We pretended we had parties. Elegant affairs if I can say so myself. Very few ever got invited to our 'parties' either.
Brenda's older sister liked to aggravate us of course. Don't all older siblings do that? She would show up and we'd chase her away. If she didn't leave we'd 'Tell on her' and let my Auntie take care of her. She would come without us knowing sometimes and listen to our childish prattle, as we served 'tea' to our imaginary guests. Then she would laugh at us and tell everyone how"SILLY" we were. Boy I tell you she could get our claws out fast. That is the reason when she showed up one day with our 'dinner' on a tray we were really flabbergasted. Didn't know what to think. There were two sandwiches. (Auntie had sent them) We had our mugs of tea. (Water). Also on the tray was a big bowl of Chocolate puddin'. Just off the stove she said. all creamy and yummy lookin'. We were still not trusting her very far though. Nope. We knew her well. Yep! She would do anything to get us mad. We inspected the sandwiches real good. But not the puddin'.!! We knew dessert was not to be eaten till last. She had a sandwich too and we decided to let her eat with us. Boy, now wasn't she being nice today. We couldn't hardly believe it. Shouldn't have believed it!! Nope! Sure shouldn't have!!
We all ate our sandwiches. I can't remember what kind they were now. Didn't much matter then either. We were eager to get in to that chocolate puddin'. Yummy our favorite!!!
She had brought two spoons from the house. "Aint you gonna eat no puddin" we asked. "Naw, I brought that for you". Heck fire we had never seen her so sweet. "You will have to eat outta the bowl", she said. Heck that was OK with us.
We both dug our spoons in. "What are those lumps" we asked. "Oh it probably just has a few lunps in it, wont hurt nuthin" she said. The anticipation was gettin' the best of us so we put a big bite in our mouths at the same time. Spit, Splutter, gag, OH MY GOSH!!! What is that? She started gigglin' her head off. I mean she was outta breath from gigglin'. We still didn't know what she had fed us but we knew it was not edible and our claws were out big time!!! One of us, or maybe both, can't remember, threw that bowl of chocolate, whatever it was, right in her face and it rolled down all over her. We ran to tell on her but she got there first. "Mama look what they did to me" she whinned. "What in the world is that stinkin' stuff" my Auntie asked. Heck we didn't know what it was. "She told us it was Chocolate puddin Auntie" I said. Well Auntie knew what it was. "Did you girls eat this"? She asked. "We just took one bite and we spit it out Mama" Brenda said.
Auntie looked at big Sister and started laughin'. Well Heck Fire, What is she laughin' for we thought. We were madder n' hornets. Sure wasn't funny to us.
Auntie only laughed for a few seconds and she turned deadly serious. "You two go in the house and wash out your mouthes real good" Which we were glad to do. From the back porch we could hear Auntie light in to older sister. "You deserve that horse manure (Auntie called it what it was) in your face and you can wear it for a while." "But Mama" she started. "NO BUTS. You get out there on the grass and sit there for one hour". "NO Mama, please let me wash off". "NO, not till I say you can, now do as I say".
Well now we knew what we had eat a bite of and we did some gagging of our own. Auntie gave us a glass of kool-aide and a cookie. We basked in our glory as we watched big sister sit out there with horse manure dryin' on her. YEP!! She just hadn't outta' done that! NOPE!!!