“Mind your Ps and Qs,” Aunt Verna often lectured Virginia.
Virginia reasonably assumed that meant green peas, pool cues.
By nature suggestible, she studied horticulture, cultivated peas.
Without a green thumb, her efforts failed.
She then espoused a pool shark.
Who ran off to Missoula.
Vera snorted upon learning.
“Ps, idiot—Qs!”
Virginia did.
Mind.
—Christie
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