Grandma dearly loved to take her pet boa, Petunia, with her everywhere she went. We worried, but she just “tsk tsked”.
Right up until the end, she was saying ‘Tunia was only a little tighter than a girdle and they’d be none the worse for it.
©2011, Debbie Feller
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I can just see the poor dear insisting… (and girdles are evil enough as they are. Tighter than — oof!) Thanks for the fun read, Debbie. 🙂