Well, my bud and I had been exploring. I stopped at mom's after. She was at the sink washing dishes.
I said Mom...you'll never guess what I found today. A diamond!
She was kinda a shaky little lady and began to shake more as I came near her.
Then I showed her a huge chunk of coal and said...But I have to get hold of superman.
My poor mom...
Same deal, Mom washing dishes and I came up behind her with a small cage containing a gerbil.
As a girl she drove tractors and operated other machinery, chopped cotton and killed rattlesnakes with a hoe on her family’s farm/ranch in Oklahoma.
I didn’t know she had an unnatural fear of rodents.
If she had had a Kingsford charcoal briquet in her hand when she spotted the gerbil just inches away, I believe she could have squeezed a diamond out. Even with all the shouting, foot stomping and so forth.