A Dropped DQ® Treat
Posted by Lisa C under Creating Smiles and Stories on
When I was a little girl, trips to the local DQ® walk-up store were a given. My sisters, eight and nine years older than I, were often “encouraged” to walk me up to the store for treats to get all of us out of my Mom’s hair for awhile. One day when I was about 10, my younger cousin was visiting so she too was included in a Saturday afternoon walk to the DQ® store.
My sisters were only given enough money for one treat per person, and luckily, we had enough for my cousin and her much bigger eyes than stomach. Even though she was only 5, she insisted she could eat a Strawberry Shortcake Treat. There was no way she could put much of a dent into this monstrous treat at her age, but my sisters let her attempt it.
Of course she was also at the age where she didn’t need any help carrying it. Not so surprisingly, as soon as we started the trek across the parking lot toward home, she leaned the Strawberry Shortcake too far in one direction and it toppled out of the dish and onto the parking lot. My sisters and I looked at each other in sheer horror and waited. We didn’t have enough money for another treat and we really didn’t want to give up one of ours, yet we knew the temper tantrum would start shortly.
After a couple of seconds, we watched, in horror again but this time also with relief, as my young cousin simply stooped down to the parking lot and slid her mangled treat back into the dish, brushed off some gravel with her spoon, and contentedly started to eat. We thought about stopping her, but then also realized that if she was fine with it, maybe we should just keep our mouths shut. Instead, we quietly ate out treats and didn’t say another word the whole walk home.
Do you have a funny DQ® memory?
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When I was 6, my family went on the last family va-kay we would have with all 5 kids in tow. I woke up in a motel in Georgia with a case of the mumps, and after consulting the pediatrician, my folks were told to go ahead with the trip but keep me indoors as much as possible and away from the water for 6 days. On the way home we drove thru the same town where the mumps adventure began (in the days before the interstate) and we must have stopped at the local DQ. (That would have been a huge treat for a family of 7.) I still have my falling-apart scrapbook from that long-ago summer in the 60s, and a page has a red plastic DQ spoon taped to it with this wistful caption, “Fort Valley. End of vacation. End of mumps.”
When I see a Dairy Queen (yes, I still call it Dairy Queen and not DQ – dating myself here) I am instantly transported back in time to the little, skinny kid who sat impatiently counting down the minutes on his watch until his parents would take him to Dairy Queen. We always stopped at the Dairy Queen either going to or from Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Whichever direction we were traveling, I was always the one with that butterscotch flavored hardshell topping all over my hands. I enjoyed that ice cream for hours later.
HA ha , what’s wrong w/ eating something that was on the ground for a while?
Some of my favorite memories about DQ are going there w/ my church group on wednesdays .
We would always give our oreo blizzards the ” up side down test”
of course it always worked . …
That is IF you did it right after purchase! We had a girl who tried it when her blizzard was slightly melted . you can probably guess what happened next! Well , she had this WONDERFULL idea of testing her blizzard OVER HER HEAD!!!! needless 2 say we had a HUGE mess to clean up!
mumps infected me last month and this is a very painful disease, my jawline were all swollen ;