By Linda Manning
You’ve heard the story of Snow White and her evil stepmother.
The Queen would always ask her mirror,
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”
The mirror would reply, “You are the fairest.”
Until one day it said, “Snow White was the fairest.”
With me, it’s “Bathroom scale, bathroom scale,
Have I lost any weight today?”
And it replies, “You haven’t lost any weight at all, now get off me.
You’re bending my springs.”
But I got even with it one day. I said,
“Bathroom scale, bathroom scale, have I lost any weight?”
It replied, “No, quit asking.”
I said, “Wrong answer.”
I stomped on it and broke its springs. Boing, boing!
Englewood, Colorado July 2007
