Seven-year-old Bethany Buttercup was always eating peanut butter straight from the jar. She ate so much peanut butter that her father warned her that she would turn into a peanut. The problem was that she ate it right before dinner, so she never ate her regular meal.
One day, her father finally took the peanut butter jar, put its lid back on, and told her:
“Your tongue is going to be glued to the top of your mouth if you don’t stop eating peanut butter.”
“I didn’t know that peanut butter could be used as glue,” Bethany said to herself.
The next day, Bethany hid in the pantry closet, eating the peanut butter with a wooden spoon. She looked at the broken shelf in front of her and decided that maybe peanut butter could fix it. So, she took the wooden spoon and slathered the peanut butter on the shelf and the wall. Bethany thought the shelf was good-as-new; it stuck to the wall like glue in no time flat. After Bethany put the peanut butter jar back on the shelf, her father opened the pantry door.
“What in the world are you doing in the pantry with the light off?” he said, turning on the lights. Bethany blinked, and the shelf collapsed on the floor with all the canned goods.
“I tried to glue the shelf with the peanut butter, Dad!” Bethany said, cleaning up the mess.
“Peanut butter only works like glue with your tongue! Only with your tongue,” he said.
“But I just ate almost the whole jar, and my tongue isn’t stuck yet,” Bethany said.
“Don’t worry, it soon will be, because I’m mixing the peanut butter with the wood glue!” he said.
“Well, I’ll eat the grape jelly from the jar instead of the peanut butter,” Bethany said. “And then I’ll really be able to mend some things around the house with the peanut butter.”
“Bethany, please, it takes a hammer and nails to properly fix anything,” her father said.
Copyright 2015 Jennifer Waters
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