Drabble – Stranger
Alexander and his generals were walking through the palace, when suddenly waves of delicious aromas caught their noses and they turned to see where they were coming from. Baked apples and fresh bread sinfully filled the air and the men gravitated towards the culinary delights.
The men entered the kitchen, closed their eyes and drew the aromas deeply in their chests. The matronly cook turned from pulling another apple dessert from her ovens to see the room suddenly filled with the King and his companions, all eyeing her cooling table with mischievous grins.
"They have to cool first." She warned the wandering fingers about to stab into her delights.
A round of disappointed 'ahs' greeted her and she grinned to herself.
Instead of leaving, they sat down around the worktable, eyeing the dessert like little boys. One of them spotted a bowl of frosting and stuck his finger into it before sticking into his mouth. His aim was errant and he ended up with frosting on the end of his nose.
After someone pointed it out to him, he pointed to his nose and said, "I bet you guys can't do this?" He then brought his tongue up and licked the frosting off the end of his own nose.
"I can do something stranger than that, watch this." Another said as he stuck out his tongue and curled it.
"Aye, but can you curl it the other way, like this?" Another tongue was now shown curled the opposite way the other general had done it.
"That's easy, I bet you can't wiggle your ears."
"I can do better than that, I can wiggle one at a time."
The cook stood and watched the various parts of the faces and bodies do their tricks, shaking her head in wonder. Finally she had had enough and cleared her throat.
"I bet I can do something stranger than any of those things and something none of you can do." She said matter-of-factly.
The men smirked that a cook could do anything better than they could, let alone a woman. She calmly pulled a stool over to the wall, stood in front of it, leaned forward over the stool and rested her head against the wall. She then placed her hands on either side of the stool, picked it up off the floor and stood up.
"Let's see you do that."
The men could hardly wait to get to the stool. Alexander beat everyone to it and placed himself in front of the stool, bent his head to touch the wall, grabbed a hold of the stool, picked it up and…didn't move.
"Come on Alexander, pick it up."
"I'm trying." Said the King through gritted teeth.
Tired of waiting for Alexander to give up his stool and quest, several others grabbed stools and moved to the wall, only to get stuck in the same position as the King.
The cook giggled to herself as she watched the men make complete fools of them selves.
Editors Note: This is something that women can do that men cannot. Really, try it. Better yet, try it on the men in your life. The center of a woman's body is different than a man's. Have fun!