Aunt Bessie and the Stray Hair
For those of you who may not remember or were born too late to have known Aunt Bessie, Luie Bessie Butrick Marshal-1 Bush-2 Coffman-3, elder sister of my grandmother, Hally Evelyn Butrick Cecil Inman; she was a meticulous housekeeper. And more than anything else she could not abide by having animals inside the house.
Well, Gramma Inman although a great housekeeper in her own right, did not share her sister's philosophy that a dog's place was OUTSIDE the home.
One weekend a group of us were visiting at Gramma Inman's. In attendance were several children, grandchildren and Aunt Bessie. As we all gathered around the table preparing for dinner, Aunt Bessie was complaining how having a dog in the house was terrible, smelly, unhealthy, and well, you get the idea.
Finally, everyone was seated and dinner was progressing, my cousin, Larry (Cecil) took a bite and then made an odd face -- like Tom Hanks in Big eating Caviar for the first time. Larry put his fingers to his mouth and acted like he was pulling a 12 foot hair from his mouth. Once extracted, he examined his imaginary prize and announced "Oh, it's just a dog hair" and returned to his meal.
All of us had a good laugh, but Aunt Bessie went off again on how she was right about filthy animals inside the house. Gramma was now irate and cracked Larry on the back of his head for his impromptu performance at her expense.
Don't mess with Gramma!
(I was present during the above event)