Hog Heaven
"Do you eat corn on the cob typewriter style
or around in circles?"
That's the first thing I said
as we slipped into the booth
at Chuck and Lou's Barb-B-Que.
She laughed and said, "Typewriter."
Then her eyes lit up.
"Hey, I got one."
"Do you scoop baked beans with a spoon
or spear them with a fork?"
I gulped down a swig of Hires and answered,
"I'll show you when the food comes."
A few minutes later,
she was typing away on her corn
and I was spearing beans.
She wiped her lips with a big cloth napkin,
looked around and whispered,
"Wanna hear a secret?"
"When I put peanut butter on toast
and no one's looking,
I eat it upside down
so it doesn't stick to the roof of my mouth.
Promise not to tell?"
It was a match made in hog heaven.
Every anniversary, we tell our kids that story,
and they just roll their eyes.
