Allergic To The Truth
(My brother-in-law and I are having a conversation with our mother-in-law. The subject has turned to allergies.)
Mother-In-Law: “I don’t believe in peanut allergies. I raised nine children and they all ate peanuts. So, I don’t think it’s true.”
Me: “That just means that your children didn’t have allergies. Lots of children have them.”
Mother-In-Law: “No, allergies don’t exist. We never heard of allergies until recently. What happened to the children who had allergies back then?”
Brother-In-Law: “They died.”
Mother-In-Law: “That can’t be true. Kids didn’t just die.”
Me: “My mother had a couple of friends who just suddenly died when she was young. She was told ‘they were too good to live.’”
Mother-In-Law: “Oh! I had a friend who suddenly died…”
(Glad we set her straight! Turned out my own daughter has a peanut allergy.)
This story is part of our Mother-In-Law roundup!
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