Hello everyone!! It’s Friday the 13th as I type this article. I think I’ve told y’all before that my mother-in-law was the most superstitious person I have ever met.
She would not have left her house today if she were still alive. If a black cat ever crossed in front of her while she was driving, she would turn around and go the other way. She had so many superstitions, I can’t even remember them all. One of her big ones was that if you went somewhere and bought new shoes, you were absolutely not allowed to set them on the table — someone would die. I know this because one time I came in the house carrying a box of shoes and she said, “You better not set those on the table!!” I had never heard that one before.
After telling y’all all the crazy things my mom told me as a child, I also remembered my dad saying, “Don’t drink milk when you eat fish — it’ll make you sick.” Has anyone else ever heard that? He meant it too. No milk with fish at our house.
There was another thing my dad used to say when we were sick. He would ask, “Sis, do you hurry bad?” Nobody in the world would know what that meant except me and my siblings. I also had an uncle who would say something similar when he and my aunt had company over and thought they were staying too late. He’d look at my aunt and say, “Let’s go to bed so our company can go home.” Now that’s one way to get rid of folks. My brother and I were laughing about that just yesterday.
I’ve got a few sayings of my own. For example, “If you don’t go psycho on your husband every once in a while, do you even love him?” If Chuck Hopkins were alive right now, he could write his own articles about his crazy wife and the stunts I pulled over the years we were married.
Take the time I ordered pizza from Domino’s in Greenwood — or so I thought. I called in the order, drove to Greenwood to pick it up, and the young man told me, “We don’t have a pizza order for you.” He asked when I called it in, so I checked my phone and told him. He apologized and said he’d be happy to make it for me, but I declined and headed back home.
On the way back to Mansfield, I get a call — and it’s from the Greenwood, Indiana, Domino’s. They wanted to know when I was coming to pick up my order.
What?! I went through the whole story with him, and he said, “That’s alright, it’s happened before.” I seriously doubt it had, but it made me feel better. And let’s not forget the time I cooked a frozen pizza at home and left the cardboard on the bottom, smoking up the whole house.
I am definitely not exempt from crazy at all.
MOUNDS BROWNIES
1 box brownie mix for 9×13 pan
5 cups of shredded coconut
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
1 container of chocolate frosting (I use the chocolate fudge)
Make the brownies according to the box directions. In a bowl, mix together the coconut and condensed milk. Once you take the brownies out of the oven, spread the coconut mixture on top. Microwave the frosting just enough to make it pourable and pour on top of the coconut mixture. Let it cool and enjoy these brownies.
