My grandmother told my mother who passed it on to me, always empty your boots when you get up in the morning in case the scorpions decided to hide in them at day break. Grandmother lived in a soddie on a ranch in Colorado so that makes sense. I lived in a frame house in the upper midwest and she knew there were no scorpions; She told me that to connect me to the past, to her mothers world.
The country needs to empty its boots of the scorpions that scuttle around the Lower House of Congress.
My grandmother told my mother who passed it on to me, always empty your boots when you get up in the morning in case the scorpions decided to hide in them at day break. Grandmother lived in a soddie on a ranch in Colorado so that makes sense. I lived in a frame house in the upper midwest and she knew there were no scorpions; She told me that to connect me to the past, to her mothers world.
The country needs to empty its boots of the scorpions that scuttle around the Lower House of Congress.
Sage advice even if there were no scorpions. There could be brown recluse and black widows, all sorts of crawlies that can get in your shoes. My mother told me the same as yours did you, back in 1960’s Texas.
As for the creepy crawlies in congress, shining a bright light should have them scuttling away soon enough.
When I was 9 years old my first baseball coach said, when we got a break to go to the water fountain: “Men, slosh some water around real good and spit it out before you drink any.”
It wasn’t until about 50 years later that it dawned upon me this was a precaution against swallowing chewing tobacco.