[Socratic]

When I was a child, we lived on a small lake. The washing machine drained directly into the lake, leaving dirty suds. My mom told us kids it was "snake spit." We never played in the dirty suds!

[ChewedGum]

Ha - these stories are great! When I was little, we didn't get extra things at the store - my Dad was a public school teacher. One day, my Mom actually bought my sister, myself and my little brother each our own tube of Chap-Stick.

My brother ate his when we got home. (No - I don't know why...it smells good but tastes awful...no idea how you could get through a whole tube.) Then he stole mine and my sister's and ate both of those. We were so mad at him, we told him it was poisonious and he was going to die. He believed us and cried for a long time, kept saying "But I don't want to die!" Finally, our anger wore off and we informed him that wasn't really going to die.

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