Better to Laugh

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.