Potential Salshaker
Here is an interesting fact:
In 1813, a British doctor turned some of King Charles, I's vertebrae
into saltshakers. *
It was just one of those odd facts at the bottom of every
page of every any UNCLE JOHN'S BATHROM READER book.
The word "saltshaker" for mischief reminded of
high school days. For a while my
demented friend would always unscrew the saltshakers and sugar pourers at
eateries' tables. Many of a meal was
ruined until some of the smarter
waitresses realized that that kind of accident would always happened after
Jimmy Pat Presley got and up and left.
At Atherton Drug Store, at the lunch booths, I remember once,
Jimmy Pat got to leave. The waitress,
Mott, was talking to someone. Without
missing a word of her conversation she walked over and tightened the salt and
pepper shakers, and sugar pourer. She knew.
*UNCLE JOHN'S BATHROOM READER PLUNGES INOT HISTORY, p389.
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