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Ryan leaned in, raised his hand to his brow

  • Ryan leaned in, raised his hand to his brow to block out the daylight and squinted through the tiny porthole in the door. As his eyes adjusted, the shape of a
  • door-to-door salesangel approached. Ryan had hoped there would be none in heaven, but no such luck. He courteously opened the door. "Hi," said the angel. "Rent-A-Harp is offering
  • a truly devilish savings on our 4-foot free-standing harp today. You'd be damned not to try it." "What the fu-" he started. But the salesangel put a finger on his lips and said "Ah
  • em, no discordant tones in our shop please". He winked at me. "I was going to say: What?The FOot pedals look like they're from a Harley." The salesangel struck a string & the harp
  • lager bottle tipped over, filling a tumbler which came down on a seesaw which released a mouse trap, that snapped shut, lifting a door where a mongoose ran down a chute and grabbed
  • a quail egg sitting on a lever, which lifted and sent a Matchbox car crashing into dominoes that fell down and pressed a button, inflating a balloon whose string pulled a magnet
  • which pulled down another lever which turned the cog which rotated the gyro-gizmo. With a plop, the egg fell into the boiling water and after 4 minutes a net scooped it out and int
  • o a metal strainer in a pan filled with cool water, where it lay patiently. Soon tiny robot hands reached out, lifted, and tipped the egg, only to tilt and tap it on the side of
  • polished granite kitchen benchtop, precisely cracking the shell into equal halves. The tiny robots deposited the contents of the egg into a small glass bowl and processed the egg s
  • alad to perfection. The robots then served me the special egg salad with a buttery croissant on a fine china plate & a cup of tea. Are you surprised this story ended so nicely?

2 Comments

  1. 49erFaithful May 20 2013 @ 13:01

    Not at all PurpleProf, I'd have my heavenly egg salad made no other way!

  2. SlimWhitman May 26 2013 @ 09:56

    Deviled egg salad? ;-)

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