I have been known to eggsaggerate….now with that out of the way I can stream of conscious about egg as noun and most likely as an verb.
When I was a kid my older brother would often egg me on to do something I later regretted. Like pinch Mr Horn’s eggs from his chook house. Mr Horn had a lot of chooks and that always meant a lot of eggs and what would me taking a few ever matter in the grand scheme of things.
That my brother gave me an egg carton to hold a dozen never seemed an issue until one day I came out with the carton under my arm to meet Mr Horn standing at the gate of the chook house.
No amount of blushing and feeble excuses could cover for the embarrassment of being caught. Across the fence I could sense my brother, his breath held as he awaited Mr Horn’s wrath to descend on me.
Instead Mr Horn took my eggs and me and took me home to my mum who was well aware of the eggings that went on between her two sons.
She diffused the situation by paying Mr Horn for the eggs and agreeing that I would clean out the chook house each week, bag the chook poo and sell it out front and give Mr Horn half of what I made which wouldn’t be a lot. But I did see a way of making a few bob; chook poo was always in demand around our way.
So my business career began in eggnominy and graduated to shit as they say.
Written for: http://lindaghill.com/2016/03/18/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-march-1916/
Morpethroad 
I think it would have been better if your brother got to share in your punishment since he egged you on. I assume that a chook is a chicken. I can see Mr. Horn not being too happy to see you with an egg carton. You were organized thieves anyway, no grabbing a few eggs there. Very nice post about eggs. 🙂
Yes we grew up with chooks, chicken was what we ate at Christmas and Easter.
OK now I have to google chooks. Chooks are actually a different bird you are saying. 🙂
No sorry its a colloquial name for chickens, no idea where it came from but its the word we used as kids….
Ok, thanks for clarifying that. Cute. 🙂
No that is what I called a perfect example of justice and mercy going hand in glove. A smart man, that Mr. Horn. Thoroughly enjoyable story, Michael.
Thank you Lyn, it is isn’t it, sometimes some good can come from a bad deed….and to think his brother got none of the spoils in the end…
Funny! 😊
Thank you Cathy. Bringing a smile to your face makes my day…😀😀
Oh this is so amusing. I can literally visualize Mr. Horn’s face. You two were quite a gang 🙂
Thank you so much, hard lessons in life they were…
You are welcome. Let me use this opportunity to invite you over for the brunch party that I am hosting on my blog today and tomorrow. The link will go live in 3 hours.
Are you serving tea and scones with jam and cream?
For sure 🙂 I love scones
LOL Michael. Great story and super punch line
Thanks John, lovely you could stop by.
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So my business career began in eggnominy and graduated to shit as they say.
oh how you are on a roll … or wobble as eggs don’t exactly roll in spherical fashion, but they do manage to break just fine 😉
You had me totally cracking up XD
great SoCs …. eggsaxactly what I needed to read 😉
Thanks Pat, so good knowing I can get you off to a good start in the morning, just crack an egg or two and off you go….
yeah, ’cause my brains aren’t scrambled at all hours of the day 😉
Well if I can poach the occasional hour then good for me…
roflmbo …. the yolks over here are grinning from so much good reading 😉
grinning yolks, wow there’s a sight to fry your mind…sorry can’t help the egg puns….
roflmao ….. *snorting* …. can’t stop laughing …. I’m feeling particularly cracked and beaten this Saturday night 😉
Well maybe you’ll be beaten into a fluffy omelet??
Perhaps …. whipped white and clean if I may perchance have sweet dreams ….. 😉 …. I am sooooo ….. tired. Need sleep. Perhaps eggs for breakfast when I wake up …. I have a hankering even though I’m not hungry now ….
best sleep on it Pat, see if you are eggscited in the morning…..
*snorting* ….. did just that …. and it’s still too early to tell if I’m feeling egged on just yet 😉
Love that last line – amusing story 🙂
Thank you Ginni, appreciate you stopping by…
What an eggsellent story, Michael! You’re not from Australia by any chance?
How did you guess?
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Haha! I think your mother handled that eggceedingly well. 😀
She had a way about her Linda….happy Easter
Happy Easter, Michael. 🙂