I've been laughing out loud, and the tears have finally cleared up enough for me to be able to write. I'll skip the time I left out the sugar from the pumpkin pie, or used biscuit mix instead of flour in the cookies. This isn't baking related, but more than forty years later, my now-grown son reminds me of it. We were very young, and I was still attending college, so my new blender that I'd gotten as a birthday gift was a real treat. I decided to make milkshakes, nice, thick milkshakes. The only drinking vessels I had that could hold the milkshakes were Tupperware iced tea glasses, which were tall and narrow. The shakes wouldn't come out of the glasses! I tilted mine up higher and got a faceful of milkshake as the entire thing plopped out. My then four year old son was laughing so hard! After I wiped it off my glasses and face, I had to clean the kitchen floor.

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