Reply #71: Where I live, we are surrounded by mountains [View All]

[nuxvomica]

As a child, I wondered why no matter how far we drove, I would always see mountains on the horizon. I asked my dad what was on the other side of the mountains and he told me there were poison tomatoes and that the mountains protected us from them. I eventually learned on my own that this wasn't true but I've never liked being in flat country.

Also, we had an old fan that we used a lot in the summer. Wedged into one of the vents on the fan's motor was an old Sugar Smack (a "sugar-toasted puff of wheat"). I thought it was part of the mechanism and the concept of the beetle carapace-like cereal being part of an electric motor was disturbing to me at times.