After our discussion of joking ways to say grace before a meal, Al from Denton, Texas, shares the story of a curmudgeon’s highly efficient one: Much obliged. This is part of a complete episode.
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Our conversation about playful prayers at the dinner table, those formulaic ways of blessing the meal really fast and getting to the food, prompted an email from Al in Denton, Texas.
And Al writes, a friend told me that when he was a youngster in Macon, Georgia, his family would frequently have Sunday dinner at his uncle’s house. When everyone was seated, they would bow their heads and the uncle would intone the same prayer. Much obliged. Straight to the point.
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