Mushrooms

Kid: Mom! Did you know the mushrooms in the front yard taste just like mushrooms?
Mom: AAAAaaaargh!

Yes, apparently one of my kids and a few of the neighborhood kids all got together and picked and ate the tiny patch of mushrooms growing in the grass in my front yard.

The mom of the kid next door called poison control.

Poison control gave us great news; there are only a few varieties of mushrooms growing wild in our area that cause death. The ones that kill you do it relatively quickly by shutting down your internal organs. There is no antidote.

Since the kids ate all the mushrooms we couldn't even take a sample in to find out if they're a dangerous kind or not.

It's not like we don't feed these kids. I shell out big money for popsicles, popcorn, pretzels and fruit snacks for the roving neighborhood kid pack. I know other moms on this street do the same. So I have to ask, what are these kids doing eating mushrooms out of the lawn? Who had this bright idea?

No one died; or even got a tiny bit ill, except for a few moms who had minor stress related symptoms. The kids have promised not to ever eat any mushrooms they find in the grass.

I now have the number for poison control stuck to my refrigerator and added to my phone list.