Monday, August 04, 2008 8:13 PM Greg Taylor

Wood spoon

I seem to remember that when we were kids, mixed in with our regular daily flatware was a single spoon with a slender, tapered, dark hardwood shaft for a handle.  And that the spoon was an object of desire and envy among us kids.  If you were tasked with setting the table for dinner, you would try to put the wood spoon at the setting that you expected to use.  Underhanded methods would be used to secure the spoon for oneself at the upcoming meal.  

Am I making this up, or does anyone else remember this?

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:29 AM by doug

Until you mentioned it, I'd completely forgotten about it.  Didn't the end of the handle have some sort of colored plastic cap?

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:28 AM by Greg Taylor

No, it didn't.  Are you even a member of this family?

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:55 AM by Jennifer Bringhurst

I seem to remember that it had a metal cap on the end of it that was flush with the shaft.  

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Friday, August 08, 2008 6:33 PM by Brian Taylor

I remember you younger kids angling for that spoon.  I licked that spoon while you were not looking.  Boy, you guys were dumb.  

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Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:43 PM by Jennifer Bringhurst

While you licked the spoon, we went through you "special" trunk.

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Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:18 AM by clyde

What did you have inside your trunk that it made "special," Brian?  Oh boy, Oh boy! This is getting good.

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Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:47 PM by jeff

i don't remember a special spoon.  i do remember mom hiding her "diet" caramels on the top shelf in the hall coat closet on downing circle and the cool sound stemware makes when you snap the stem off.  i also remember that if you ground a bunch of dirt into doug's afro you could hit him on the top of his head for the rest of the day and it would look like smoke was coming out of his hair.  good times.