THERE WAS a sweet older lady who would often do grocery shopping for the infirm and elderly in her
church. One hot, summer day a lady asked her to pick up a few things and bring them by her house in a
dangerous part of Baltimore City.
The sweet old lady was wary but felt that she couldn't say no, eventhough she was terrified of driving in the part of the city that often had shoot-outs and other drug
violence. Anyway, the woman went on her way, picked up the groceries and proceeded to the lady's
house.
As she entered the lady's neighborhood she noticed young hoodlums gathering on every street corner.
Although she had no air conditioning in the car, she rolled the windows up tightly (as a safety precaution)
and suffered in the 90+ degree heat.
She drove ahead until suddenly she heard a loud "POP!" and felt a jolt to the back of her head. She
reached to feel the back of her head and came back with a wet oozing mess that she was sure was part of
her brain! Knowing that she had been shot, the woman turned around and raced to a local hospital.
Somehow she made it to the emergency room and had the strength to walk right in. She told the
attendant that she had been shot. Immediately she was rushed back to an exam room. Doctors whirled
around and asked where she had been shot (since they saw no blood). She said "my head," and the
doctors found a mass of the oozing white substance the woman had first noticed.
Upon inspection the doctors realized that the white substance wasn't part of her brain but was instead a
lump of biscuit dough (the kind in a can) that had exploded from the heat of her car!
(As told by reader Vanessa B.)
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