I was trying to make an apple pie for Christmas at 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Elbows deep into cut apples, I realized I didn’t have any lemon juice. I called three CVS stores and one Walgreens…no lemon juice. I even called a BP gas station. I tried to not panick. Then I thought about my workplace…I mean, they do have a kitchen and a full size refrigerator. I only live two miles away, so I hopped into my car and drove over to the school. I went to the fridge, opened it, looked on the shelves in the door, and there it was – a little, yellow plastic lemon! Score!! Who cares that it was two months past the expiration date; I have used lemon juice older than that in the past. I will replace it with a fresh, plastic lemon on Monday. Sheesh, what a mom will do to make her family an apple pie for Christmas.
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