Thursday, August 14, 2008

Liver

This is a tale about liver:

A long time ago back when I was nine and my sister was about five, my mother served us for dinner: liver, onions, mashed potato and peas. Anyway after about fifteen minutes or so I'd finished all my dinner and was allowed to have a biscuit then watch TV. Well my poor sister she hated liver and after a further ten minutes shouted

"I've finished."

Well my mum knowing of previous altercations about liver in the past with her, rushed to the kitchen to check her plate, oh yes empty plate, but there was bits of chopped liver all over the table, so with that, my mother scraped the liver back onto her plate.

"Eat it NOW!!" she yelled.

Well a further ten minutes passed.

"I've finished", a little voice called from the kitchen.

This time my mother was up in a flash and raced to the kitchen, no liver on her plate, no liver on the table..why was my sister holding her hands tightly in her pockets, my mother clocked it too.

"Empty your pockets!".

My sister carefully held out two parcels of liver wrapped in kitchen roll, my mother was furious, with her hands trembling with anger she shook out the bits of liver back onto my sister's plate,

"This is your last warning Lady-Jane, EAT IT NOW!"

Well after a few sobs from the kitchen and about ten more minutes later, my sister appeared in the living-room doorway

"I've really finished mummy, promise, look?"

My mother searched her plate, no not a scrap of liver there, nothing on the table, my mother then checked the floor, no none there either. She eyed my sister's pockets, no none there either.

"Have you really eaten your liver?" My mother asked

"Yes, really." She sheepishly replied

"OK, good girl, now you can watch the rest of neighbours and then you can both do the dishes."

Well as we were doing the dishes I noticed my sister kept on looking at the vegetable rack...oh yes you've guessed it, there was the liver stuffed behind the potatoes on the top shelf. With a wink to my sister and without a word being said, I hastily wrapped the nasty stuff and threw it away.

My sister still hates liver to this day!

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