Monkey Bones

Really cute store on Emmi and Tucker that happened years ago but just came to light.  Yesterday afternoon we were waiting for our dinner to get done.   

These could be monkey bones according to what Tucker told Emmi . . . . Read on . . . .    

Tucker was in the basement, Neal was in his office and I was on the couch.  I get a text on the Gertson family chat from Emmi.  She says:

    "Stupid question time.  Those little crispy bits of noodles or bread or whatever that you can put on salads and various ethnic dishes.  What are those called?  tucker told me when I was like 6 or 7 that they were monkey bones and I've never touched them.  I know they aren't now, but I totally believed him for years."

Well, I was laughing so hard and I knew immediately that they were those chinese noodles that you buy in a can.  So I responded and in the meantime sent Emmi's text to Tucker knowing that he would get a kick out of it.  All of a sudden I hear Tucker laughing from downstairs.  I was still laughing myself when he came upstairs.  Tucker said he absolutely didn't remember doing that but wasn't surprised.  Then we get another text from Emmi and she said,

    "Well, he went to South America on his mission so it was totally believable that he ate monkey     bones.  I can still clearly remember the whole thing.  He was sitting at the end of the tabel by the wall eating some spicy looking thing he made.  He dumped these things on top and I asked what it was and he said, 'monkey bones'.  I said no way and he said 'oh yeah we used to eat these on my mission and they're great.  He then offered me some and I got up and walked away."

Emmi and Tucker text back and forth for a while and it was chow mein noodles that he told her were monkey bones.  Cute story!