Family Friday Tales: The Tale of the Birthday Party

 Our father was a great story-teller.  We loved his stories.  He saw things around him and turned them into lessons for "us kids" and often made us laugh.  Today's story made us laugh.

This is the story:  there was a man in the neighborhood when our father was a boy.  This man was apparently fairly popular.  When he arrived at a pretty good age, there was a large birthday party planned for him.  If I remember right, the party was held in the church hall so it could accommodate all the people who wanted to attend and congratulate the gentleman at arriving at that age.  I don't remember what it was but it strikes me that he was 70 years old.

Someone made a wonderful huge cake for him, which I believe was cooked in a large dishpan.  By saying that you know this story took place many years ago.  I don't know of anyone in this day and age who has a metal dishpan capable of being used in the oven to bake a cake...the dishpans we use are all plastic.

Anyway, it came time for the presentation of the cake with all its candles.  Someone, or maybe more than one person, put a match to all the candles.  The gentleman inhaled a huge breath then blew with all his might to blow out all those candles with one breath.  At the end of his "blow" his false teeth landed right in the middle of the cake.

This was a story our father told us with much mirth and appreciation for the funny things that can happen to a person.  I think that story is one of the reasons that I try to take pretty good care of my teeth...!