Dinner Party

[hoarsewhisperer]

it's long, but worth it

A group of country neighbors wanted to get together on a regular basis and
socialize.
As a result, about 10 couples formed a dinner club and agreed to meet for
dinner at a different neighbors' house each month.
Of course, the lady of the house was to prepare the meal.

When it came time for Jimmy and Susie Brown to have the dinner at their
house.
Susie wanted to outdo all the others and prepare a meal that was the best
that any of them had ever lapped a lip over.

A few days before the big event,
Susie got out her cookbook and decided to have mushroom smothered steak.
When she went to the store to buy some mushrooms,
she found the price for a small can was more than she wanted to pay.
She then told her husband,
"We aren't going to have mushrooms, because they are too expensive."

He said, "Why don't you go down in the pasture and pick some of those
mushrooms?
There are plenty of them right in the creek bed."
She said, "No, I don't want to do that, because I have heard that wild
mushrooms are poison."
He then said, "I don't think so. I see the varmints eating them all the time
and it never has affected them."

After thinking about this, Susie decided to give this a try and got in the
pickup
and went down in the pasture and picked some.
She brought the wild mushrooms back home and washed them,
sliced and diced them to get them ready to go over her smothered steak.
Then she went out on the back porch and got Ol' Spot's (the yard dog) bowl a
nd gave him a double handful.
She even put some bacon grease on them to make them tasty.
Ol' Spot didn't slow down until he had eaten every bite.
All morning long, Susie watched him and the wild mushrooms didn't seem to
affect him, so she decided to use them.


The meal was a great success,
and Susie even hired a lady from town to come out and help her serve.
She had on a white apron and a little cap on her head. It was first class.

After everyone had finished, they all began to kick back and relax and
socialize.
The men were visiting and the women started to gossip a bit.
About this time, the lady from town came in from the kitchen and whispered
in Susie's ear.
She said, "Mrs. Brown, Spot just died."

With this news, Susie went into hysterics.
After she finally calmed down, she called the doctor and told him what had
happened.
The doctor said, "It's bad, but I think we can take care of it.
I will call for an ambulance and I will be there as quick as I can get
there.
We will pump out everyone's stomach and everything will be fine.
Just keep them all there and keep them calm."
It wasn't long until they could hear the wail of the siren as the ambulance
was coming down the road.

When they got there, the EMTs got out with their suitcases
and a stomach pump and the doctor arrived shortly thereafter.
One by one, they took each person into the master bedroom and pumped out
their stomach.
After the last one was finished, the doctor came out and said,
"I think everything will be fine now, and he left."

They were all looking pretty peaked sitting around the living room,
and about this time, the town lady came in and said,

"You know, that fellow that ran over Ol' Spot never even stopped."

[hoarsewhisperer]

I love this story and I think it is applicable to all our lives...

Subject: Fw: The Mouse

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died.

So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.