You may wonder <br />how peeling the shells off eggs <br />makes me smile...... <br />but it does! <br /> <br />I've been making egg salad sandwiches <br />and smiling the whole time! <br /> <br />While I am wrestling with the eggs <br />trying to get the paper-thin shell <br />to come off without removing too much egg....... <br />I'm reminded of my dad. <br /> <br />Whenever my dad would peel eggs <br />it would kick him off <br />into an hour long tangent.... <br /> <br />''Those stupid farmers! '' <br />''They are so greedy they give the chickens <br />something to make them lay more eggs <br />and it's making their shells so thin I can't remove it <br />without losing half the egg! '' <br /> <br />He would go on and on while we rolled our eyes <br />and gave eachother ''the look''. <br />''Here he goes again! '' <br />We learned to volunteer to peel the eggs <br />just to avoid hearing the speech. <br /> <br />Well, he's been gone for 12 yrs now........ <br />What I wouldn't give to hear that speech again! <br />I still hear him. <br />Only now, I smile while I wrestle the shells off the eggs.<br /><br />Mary Nagy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/peeling-eggs-makes-me-smile/
