Jelly Potatoes

Recently, on a short road trip, my mom, my sister, my boyfriend, and I were all in a car and munching on jelly beans. A little while after we had started eating them, my sister stops and stares at one of hers and tells us:

"They should call them jelly potatoes."

We had a little argument in the car, with my sister saying that they looked more like really small potatoes and the rest of us saying beans made more sense, as they were the same shape and size. (Argument is too serious of a word, as my mom was driving and nearly cried from laughing so hard.)

When we took her to the store, we made sure to show her some beans and the comparison finally made sense to her.

(But we also decided that someone should work on making potato-sized jelly beans to call jelly potatoes.)

Hugie Lugie

You know when you get tongue-tied? Usually, the words you mean to say come out a little jumbled, but once you finally get them out correctly, people can see how the jumble makes sense.

Not with my sister.

Gibberish just comes out. "Hugie lugie" is one such gibberish sentence that she said once. I don't remember what she was trying to say, but trust me, it sounded nothing like "hugie lugie". I think it was something about a deer.

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