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My mom had a spoon that had several small holes in it for that purpose. You could even dish out sugar with it and then stir. I thought it was pretty clever at the time.
You guys are awesome. Anyone else read it in their voices?
Edit: I didn’t expect so much love. Thanks guys!
2nd edit: Wow I have never got so many upvotes on a comment before. I went through and read all of the comments and upvoted all of them. You guys are wonderful.
Funny enough, this was retconned in the novel "Long live the Pumpkin Queen" Sally is actually from Dreamland, he kidnapped her, gave her a potion to forget her life in Dreamland, and told all the residents of Halloween he had created her.
Yeah, I'm not feelin' that retcon at all. The thing that made Halloween town and its inhabitants endearing was how mundane and normal they all were, despite being freakish horror tropes. She's a better character being a typical rebellious teen outwitting her typical hardass father and not some kind of secret Lindbergh baby. It's harder to identify with characters who have such fantastical backstories. I haven't been kidnapped and brainwashed by a kooky fraud, have you? Besides, isn't it pretty well established in the movie that he does know how to create life?
I had an aunt who really struggled with her weight, and my grandma got her this (also a fork with only one tine iirc) for Christmas one year. Yes, grandma was a raging bitch.
My dad said the same thing about my grandma who told me to stay away from black people because they’re nothing but trouble. We got in the car and I was like “do you know what your mother just told me?” 😳
My mom used to lock all the car doors if we were driving and she saw black people. I got the last laugh though and married and had children with a black person.
My mom told 12 year old me: You've got Dunlop Disease. Your belly dun lopped over your jeans!
I was not fat but I didn't know that at the time. Now I know that my jeans were just too small for me and I also know that was not 12 year old me's fault.
I once had a three year old student who was just a little chubby, but all her clothes were crazy small on her. Like kid had plumber's crack no matter what pants she wore. We told her mom that she could barely bend her arms and her butt was always hanging out and she responded by saying her daughter needed to lose weight, not get new clothes. Meanwhile the mom packed the kid's lunch every day day and it was always things like those 6 cookie Oreo packets, chips, a full bottle of Prime, pretty much anything sugary or fatty. We were so mad. It wasn't even that the clothes were too tight, they were too short too. Her little belly was always hanging out because her shirts were practically crop tops! Get your head out your ass and get your freaking toddler some clothes that fit! I swear, parents are the worst part about teaching.
The nerve of her to say her kid doesn't need new clothes! Toddlers always need new clothes, they're constantly growing! I don't know how some parents don't realize that they are the reason their kids are chunky/ are mean/ have behavioral issues. My mom made fun of my weight but she wouldn't put down the booze and cocaine and make me healthy meals or take an active role in any part of my life.
I always wondered weather my daughter's teachers paid attention to what kids had in their cold lunches so I've always been careful to make them healthy and bougie 😂 and one of her teachers told me she loved seeing her healthy lunches
I've always struggled with my weight since I was little (hormonal imbalance) and I told my aunt about how I struggled with an eating disorder from around middle school through early college, and I shit you not, she looked me dead in the eye and said, "well, it didn't work"
There was a time in highschool where I was walking through the livingroom after getting some water. My family was watching a documentary on drug abuse, after a line about how most Crack addicts are terribly thin and malnourished my mother goes, "At least we know you're not on drugs". This was maybe a day after we had discussed with a doctor that my gut and chest may be caused by a hormonal imbalance and I may need surgery just to reduce them. Good news, 10 years later and move out of State and I lost it all naturally. Just needed distance and a better diet I guess
My mom told 10 year old me...You remind me of that song.. You're So Vein. I was ten.. thought it was nothing until 10 years later...got stoned and listened to that song. WTF ma?!?!?
When I was 16, my grandmother picked me up from the airport. As I walked up to her at baggage claim, she looked me up and down with a sneer and said "You gained weight."
"Hello to you, too, Gran." 😔
I told her how I'd had 13 hours of delays and only had 1 snack sized bag of chips and a bag of airplane peanuts, and asked if we could grab something to eat before the 3-hr drove from the airport to her place. She rolled her eyes, but took me to a Denny's.
I tried to order a kid's burger and fries (because I was in secret recovery from an eating disorder she didn't know about, and I was starving and people of myself) but she interrupted me and told the waiter "She'll have a salad. No dressing." The guy looked at me with pity.
After we got back to her place, she made herself a big bowl of ice cream and sat down on the couch to watch Survivor. She handed me a lukewarm Slim Fast and told me "Here. You need to use my exercise bike. But don't break it! "
Dude, I weighed 175 lbs max. 🙄
This was an average day with her. I used to have to live with her each summer and I fkn hated it!
Wow I think we shared a gran! Another thing mine told me was I should apply for the old reality tv plastic surgery makeover show, The Swan. I couldn’t have been over 17 when that was airing. She was in her 80s at the time for context.
I’m so sorry. Grandma Alice is, thankfully, dead. She went out telling my sister she had fat thighs and would never find a man, and being racist towards her primarily immigrant care team. Just like she would have wanted.
I had a grandmother like this. Rotten to the core. Said similar things about my mother. Until I embarrassed her by loudly repeating her at her retirement home’s brunch center. She never spoke to me again. Rest in misery, Gran.
As a kid I remember us having a wooden spoon with a hole in it. Not sure what it was actually for but my mom used it whoop my ass when I was doing something dumb.
My parents used a ping pong paddle, and to make up for the increased wind resistance, both sides had a raised, dotted surface, so it would leave a lovely texture behind.
Kool aid used to have a kool aid points program and you could 'buy' cool kool aid stuff with the stamps - like camel Cash or Marlboro miles, etc. We had a pitcher and stirring spoon with the kool aid man smile, cute little set! The spoon became moms favorite for whoopin ass when wed goof off after lights out. Sometimes she's pull it out of the drawer and we didnt know if we were getting a sugary drink or an ass whooping. Lol
🤣 I’m just imagining the welts on your ass in the shape of the kool aid man after learning a valuable lesson. I do remember the points though. We must be close in age. 😂
When I was about 23 I stopped in at a bar that had a sign outside that read “Soup of the Day: Whiskey”. I asked the bartender what the whiskey soup was, and they just looked at me like I was the biggest idiot in the world 😅
I have a Ukrainian soup my family learned in the country that has sausage, cucumber, and olives in it. It's very good. My boyfriend even learned to make it.
I've seen people make these for removing the thorns from prickly pear leaves (nopales). I know because I made one for my mom and she said it worked perfectly.
in the 80s some cafes would do this so drug addicts won't steal the spoons to boil heroin (cocaine?)
that way patrons could mix the sugar and spoons wouldn't be stolen
Aw the same reason high schools didn’t have stall doors. Can’t shoot up with people can see you poop. Those white collar suburbs were reeeeal tough places.
My first apartment as carpenter apprentice was above a really shitty Bar, most months I didn’t have to pay rent, because the amount of furniture I had to fix, outweighed rent. One of their staples was coffee with booze served with a lot of sugar and a spoon to stir. The spoons always disappeared, so they had to buy new ones every two months or so. One day when a new order of spoons arrived I drilled a hole in every spoon, and from that day on they wouldn’t get stolen, because you can’t cook drugs in a spoon with a hole, but you still can stir a coffee.
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