Since I was a child, my family has had food rules. We all followed them (although our mother sometimes did not, but this hardly deterred us, as we simply thought she was weird). The rules, as I remember them:
1) We do not eat albino foods (turnips, you know who you are)
2) We do not eat day-glo foods (really, fried zucchini is not good)
3) We do not eat fungus (mushrooms=yuck)
4) We go not eat foods larger than our head. (Exception: watermelon, meats)
5) Food is not fun. (Do not play with it). The containers that food comes in are fun.
The containers rule was created specifically for raisin containers, which Dad used to turn into little toys, cars, whistles, etc. right at the lunch or dinner table. We thought this was hysterical.
So it seems somehow appropriate that my niece recently ran smack into these rules, which I believe she has never followed. There is a reason they exist, and she suffered for not following them. She is only 3-1/2 years old, too. Poor niece (collective awwww). Two weeks ago, my sister received the following call from my niece’s school:
Teacher: “It’s okay, your daughter is fine. But she might have a Craisin up her nose. We’re not sure, because one teacher saw her take it out, but your daughter insists it’s still up there. What would you like to do?”
Incidentally, Craisins are sweetened dried cranberries, which are very tasty, and much more tart than raisins. But they look like large, reddish/pinkish raisins.
My sister then called the pediatrician’s office, where the conversation went something like this:
Sister: “My daughter may or may not have a Craisin up her nose. Does this constitute an emergency?”
Office: “Bring her in right away.”
There was, indeed, a Craisin in my niece’s nose, and the doctor extracted it. The teacher had seen her pull one out. Do you know what that means? Oh yes, she put TWO Craisins up her nose. She talks a lot, but no one has been able to determine why she put the Craisins there.
By the way, my niece is just fine. Her Mom and Dad thought it was all very funny until the doctor’s bill came. But my sister reports that my niece has recently started saying she doesn’t like Craisins because they hurt her nose. She does not understand that this only happens when you put them up there. I expect more rule-breaking. Ouch 
