With a missing piece.
My mother asks, "You bring a pie to someone's house with a piece taken out of it?"
Maggie replies, "I got hungry for pie, so I ate a piece."
"You're supposed to bring a whole pie!"
Maggie still refused to acknowledge that it was a little antisocial, "Well, there's only one piece gone."
My mother reminded me of this story when we were visiting, and I told it last night at Sunday dinner. My sister and cousin laughed but my cousin's husband insisted it was okay to bring a partially eaten pie, "It's only family."
"That's like bringing something to someone's house and asking for it back at the end of the night," his wife said.
The dude and I had a friend who did that once. At Thanksgiving, he brought an open bottle of brandy to our house. At the end of the evening, he went into the kitchen and fetched it to take home. We used to say he was raised by wolves because that is not the only breach of etiquette he ever committed. Fortunately, he got married and she is a very civilizing presence in his life.
We don't know what to do about Maggie, however.
14 comments:
ROFL
Is that a picture of the actual pie, because that missing piece is pretty darn big!
What I really want to know is if Maggie had another piece of pie for dessert that night? Nothing entirely wrong with eating dessert first!
Just shake your head and remind yourself that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. (You know I'm not calling your Grandmother an old dog, right?) I love that she can keep us laughing when we don't even know her....
Pam
What a good story! lol
I don't think that there is much you can do with her at this point. Let her enjoy her pie. It makes for a great story.
What a great story - I think I would just bust out laughing if anyone ever did that! I think it's ballsy!
Members of this family have been seriously tempted by pre-tasting the desserts we've brought to others' homes ... but so far, temptation has been avoided. ;)
Pacman pie!
I say Maggie gets a pass. For any behavior which causes laughter in the retelling.
LOL, gotta love Maggie and her spunk. I am always tempted to eat a piece of pie before anyone else - I love pie.
Maggie's a lost cause. Love her and leave her be. :)
Too funny!! I use to be all weird about desserts and special occasions, no one could eat anything until the dinner. Now I make my holiday desserts a day before and if my DH wants a piece of pie I don't worry about it :-).
Maggie sounds very similar to my mother--too funny.
I love the raised by wolves comment, too--I say that all the time about my SIL as a reason for her personality in general.
What to do about Maggie? Just love her. I love hearing the stories, and that is one large piece of missing pie.
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