Brownies and "Blondes"

I must start this off by saying that I am a natural blonde, over the years my hair has gotten darker.............but then about the time I turned 50, well lets just say those natural platinum highlights have lightened up my hair considerably.

I mention this because I have heard blonde jokes ALL of my life, most of the time I laugh them off.........sometimes I fight back with a joke of my own:

“Do you know what is Black and Blue, Red all over and laying in a bar ditch? - the last brunette to tell me a blonde joke!”

Other times I fire back that “those jokes are NOT about true blondes, they are about the die jobs – it is the peroxide brain damage” 

or my favorite is “The Dingy-est blondes I have EVER known were brunettes!”

Today someone shared this ad with me.........

and it brought back to mind a true incident that happened to me several years ago.

I was a member of an organization that was going to have a concession stand. We had a meeting to discuss our menu and work schedule for the event. Our main item was going to be sandwiches that we were going to make there. We also decided to buy big bags of chips and repackage them in smaller bags. The club was going to pay for all of the things we needed except for the dessert. 

Everyone was to bring two dozen cookies packaged two cookies to a bag.  We discussed the size the cookies should average so that it would be fair for our customers.

One of the members (I will call her Suzie) proclaimed that cookies were not her thing, she had a killer brownie recipe that she wanted to make for the event. 

There was some discussion and it was decided that this would be okay, she could bring brownies.........................and then........... it began.............

Me: Okay, Suzie, one brownie needs to equal about the same as two cookies so bring a dozen brownies.  Package them one brownie per sack.

Suzie: How many pans would that be?

Me: It depends on the size of your pan

Suzie: It is a regular long cake pan

Me: A 9X13?

Suzie: I guess

(Did I mention that she was a college graduate who had told me more than once that her degree was from a MUCH better learning institution than the one I graduated from)

Me: (insert inner eye roll) Then just one pan

Suzie: How do I cut it to get a dozen?

(Remember this is a woman with a college education and children)

45 MINUTES LATER.............first talking, then using a chalkboard for diagrams, then transferring it to paper for her to take home I had convinced her how to cut a 9X13 pan of brownies so that she would end up with 12 brownies!

A week later we had the event, and Suzie marched in with her........................

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PLATE of cookies! A very nice plate, complete with a paper doily and the store bought cookies stacked neatly in a pyramid. When she sat it on the table, I grabbed a box of sandwich bags and started filling them with cookies. She was not pleased because she had spent all morning getting them stacked just right.

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Did I mention she was a Brunette?