AUNT and GRASSHOPPER (standard:humor, 1235 words)
Author: BENTLINK	Added: Aug 28 2011	Views/Reads: 3253/1820	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Aunt made him crazy till at last he solved the riddle.

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creaking in the door of 447 and found her way to a high backed stool 
half way along the polished bar soon after the last of  the noisy lunch 
crowed had cleared out.  Just as in all her previous visits, she was 
carefully groomed with not a hair out of place, her cheeks shown a 
faint glow indicating she had gone to a lot of bother putting on 
cosmetic foundation.  Her lips though wrinkled and shrunken were done 
in a dark red that perfectly matched the eyes of the large gecko lizard 
pin on her left lapel.  The enamel green pin was otherwise almost 
invisible on her Kelly green jacket and would have been so but for its' 
large shinning ruby eyes.  She called across the bar to Charlie “I 
think today I will have a grasshopper to drink and young man would you 
be so kind as to give me a glass of water with ice as well”. 

Charlie echoed her order with a note of sarcasm in his voice indicating
he had again failed to get any advance clue as to what her order might 
be.  He turned away and began preparing the cocktail.  Charlie mixed 
the drink with all the customary care and professional flourish I had 
come to admire then carefully sat the green potion on a folded cocktail 
napkin in front of me.  With a discreet movement of his, head he 
indicated I should pass the cocktail and water to Aunt.  It was at this 
moment I knew Charlie had given up on his quest for the Aunt Order 
Grail.  I carefully carried the vivid green mixed drink and a tall 
tumbler of ice water and sat them on drink napkins in front of Aunt.  
Then Charlie got this astonished look on his face and with a sharp 
intake of breath shouted, “I got it by damn I got it”.  The little 
ladies eye grew large with fright when Charlie let out the yell.  He 
was jumping up and down as though he had just won the lottery.  “I got 
it by damn I got it!  I remember now you came in with a black suit and 
ordered a Black Russian and that day you were wearing a rose colored 
suit you ordered a rosé wine and the gold dress called for a Gold 
Cadillac.  You're off white paint suit got me to mixing a white 
Russian.  I remember the time you ordered Plum Brandy I was digging 
around in the back room for ten minutes because you had on that purple 
outfit; I get it now you can't fool me anymore.  You are drinking 
something that will complement the color of your outfit”. 

Aunt smiled sweetly then demurely sipped a tiny bit of her grasshopper
and lightly touched her gecko pin. 


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