Always Listen to Grandma
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189917)
Boise, Idaho
March 15, 2022 2:17pm CST
When my mom left my stepdad and we moved back to Boise we lived in a small trailer on my grandparent's property. I would be babysat by my grandma while my mom worked. She would often have me do odd jobs around the place. I recall one time she instructed me to take this certain egg and bury it out around the yard somewhere. She was very stern about me not breaking the egg. I am a very curious person and so, of course, I had to break the egg and see why she had instructed me not to. I had no way of knowing that the egg had been in the egg basket for weeks and hat rotted. I rarely moved so fast as I did in burying that egg. The putrid smell was overpowering.
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
16 Mar 22
I would have just asked why I was burying the egg instead of breaking it. 
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@celticeagle (189917)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Mar 22
I think that now and years after. I just didn't.
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
16 Mar 22
@celticeagle *shrug* Kids are curious. Now, we know why we shouldn't break an old egg.
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@Deepizzaguy (122232)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
15 Mar 22
You learned a lesson not to disobey your grandmother again.
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@Deepizzaguy (122232)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
16 Mar 22
@celticeagle I know what you mean since some of us like to push the envelope with older relatives.
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@celticeagle (189917)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Mar 22
@Deepizzaguy .......I didn't want my grandmother to lose faith in me. I wanted her to always feel that I would do what she told me. I usually did.
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Mar 22
Yep, rotten eggs have a horrible smell, Did your grandma say I told you so?
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@celticeagle (189917)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Mar 22
I never told her. Just buried it and went back inside.
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