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?
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- 2013-05-20 12:23:11
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49erFaithful May 20 2013 @ 13:01
Not at all PurpleProf, I'd have my heavenly egg salad made no other way!
SlimWhitman May 26 2013 @ 09:56
Deviled egg salad? ;-)