[Dailydrool] The Mop and the Ring

[EssieSchwartz at aol.com]

Someone mentioned two different incidents of Homer's appetite...
 
In the first one, when he was still quite young...He ate my wedding and  
engagement rings.  I was a bit hysterical because Homer was running around  
with about $2000 worth of jewelry in his belly (This was a lonnnnnnnng time 
ago,  before gold went to today's prices).  The vet said not to worry because 
I'd  get everything back in the end... well, it took two days of sifting 
what comes  out of the end...The wedding ring came first and it was flat....I 
rushed it up  to the jeweler's and they cleaned it and rounded it again for 
me....to this day,  it isn't completely round.  Later that night, the 
engagement ring  came...but that was at night...and it was dark...so I got up at 
the first light  of dawn... here I am, right before going to work...sifting 
through the remains  of Homer's appetite....  That, too, went to the jeweler 
to make sure the  stone was secured.
 
    Several years later, when Homer was about 9 or 10, my  cleaning lady 
asked me to find her an O Cedar Mop...the kind with the strings  that look 
like broad noodles...well, one by one, Homer ate each string... some  of them 
actually came out clean, and a few we had to help him by pulling... When  I 
realized what he had eaten, the mop was kept high up for his and the mop's  
safety!
    Esther
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