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Posted 11/23/2010 11:00 PM (GMT 0)
I love dried apricots,

But they don't love me,

When I eat too many,

They make me very poopy.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.  I picked up some yummy dried apricots at Trader Joe's, brought the bag to work, ate way too many of them yesterday, pooped like a goose last night and this morning, and am well on my way to the same fate today.  Will I ever learn?) :)

Posted 11/23/2010 11:12 PM (GMT 0)
Ha, ha, I like dried fruit too but it doesn't like me back! I look at it in the store longingly but alas, I too end up with the same issues. :-) Love the poem... 

Posted 11/23/2010 11:58 PM (GMT 0)
that literally made me laugh out loud! Thanks!
Posted 11/24/2010 3:06 AM (GMT 0)
It somehow doesn't surprise me that you ate too many..lol. Makes for good poopy poems.

I, personally, don't do many dried fruits unless they're in something. I pay by having too much gas, discomfort and maybe more goosey poopies.

q
Posted 11/24/2010 12:41 PM (GMT 0)
Funny story: I was about 19 (before Uc days) and me and my hubby were driving around on a beautiful fall day looking for a cider mill. I had a bag of dried apricots (I ate the whole bag!). So I am sitting there, eating these things and boy are they delicious! We finally find a cider mill/pumpkin patch, get up to walk around and go for a hay ride. In the middle of the hay ride my stomach starts to gurgle. Then it starts to rumble and growl. People are looking at me weird. But I felt ok other then my stomach making a few noises. All of a sudden I felt the immediate urge to go. At that time, the hay ride had stopped and we were at a pumpkin patch. There was no port a potty around so I talked to the driver and explained to him what was happening, he said he couldn't leave the rest of the people but to catch a ride on the hay ride that was coming back the other way. So he stops this other driver for me to hop on. I barely had enough time to make it to the port a potty when we got back. All the time though during the ride, I have never held those cheeks so hard together before............I never ate dried apricots again.
Posted 11/24/2010 4:22 PM (GMT 0)
quincy, I can't believe you'd suggest such a thing! To NOT be surprised that I might overindulge in fruit?

Great story, Sherry! They don't give me urgency, it just makes me poop a LOT!
Posted 11/24/2010 5:50 PM (GMT 0)
I've been putting a few dried cranberries on my salads with dinner.... but I have to be in pretty good shape to even have the salad, so... I can tolerate all that right now. Something to be very thankful for - !
I will need to watch out not to overindulge in holiday goodies, nuts, etc or I'll spend quality time in the bathroom.

Loved the poem, Fruitgirl. Shall I set it to music? :-)
Posted 11/24/2010 5:59 PM (GMT 0)
Go for it, songlady! :)
Posted 11/24/2010 10:15 PM (GMT 0)
fruitgirl....fruit...overindulgence as you've commented in the past with delicious fruit. Hope you didn't take it as offensive as I'm reading it. should have put a winkie beside it and explained.

q
Posted 11/25/2010 7:08 AM (GMT 0)
Your comment would be most appreciated.

q
Posted 11/25/2010 9:12 PM (GMT 0)
LOL at this thread.
Posted 11/26/2010 5:50 AM (GMT 0)
Next trip to Trader Joe's go for the frozen mango chunks instead of dried fruit. (LOL.) It's less likely that you'd pig out on those. / Old Hat (30 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)
Posted 11/26/2010 3:07 PM (GMT 0)
Gee, quincy, I didn't notice your explanation. Give me a break. Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the US and I wasn't on.

I was also joking....I caught that you were, but guess you didn't catch that I was also.
Posted 11/26/2010 3:40 PM (GMT 0)
Ease up also. I didn't expect you to comment immediately. I do realise it ws TG, although not here, therefore I had opportunity to be here.

Nice you were joking....(note to self).

q
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