Those fake plastic bull balls

I gave my Mom a big ceramic bull for christmas one year, he had some big hangers off the back. Few days later I noticed she made him a steer!


that's one of my mothers favorite stories
she was 4 or 5 years old when she got a doll for Cristmass and a BOY doll at that
I guess in those days that was rather unheard off because her grandmother took one look at the little pecker, grabbed a pair of scissors and cut it clean off

I still cringe everytime I hear that story