The Worst Sick

Every single time – and I mean, EVERY SINGLE TIME – my mom sees or knows about me eating something with gravy, she warns me:

“NEVER eat cold gravy. Make sure you warm that up good. The worst sick I ever got was when I ate cold gravy.”

Every time she tells me, it’s like the first time she’s told me. I could say “Ma, I know. You told me this” a million times and she’d still tell me regardless. And the wording never differs, either. She just has to get it said – so she’s covered.


FYI: As I read this to her, she said: I don’t want you to eat cold gravy. I was very sick.