Who Peed On My Twinkie?

Michael did, that's who. My younger brother (the oldest of the younger) peed on my Twinkie... NO LIE. TRUE STORY.  I SWEAR! Cross my heart and hope to die and all that.

Michael was born right before I turned 2. So before he could sit up (probably right after my 2nd birthday) my mom decided we both needed a bath, so why not stick us both in at the same time.  My mom laid Michael on one of those yellow sponge things that has the shape of a baby cut out of it and she hollered for me to come take a bath. I had been in the kitchen eating a Twinkie so I came into the bathroom to get my bath.  I got undressed while I was finishing my Twinkie and jumped in the tub.  My sweet little baby brother decided to urinate.  It shot straight up in the air and landed on my Twinkie. 

Now, I was too young to remember this but I have been terrified to eat Twinkies since then. Actually, I'm not a big fan of anything cream filled. And I didn't even know about this story til a few years ago when my mom told me about it, but though I didn't remember why... I was still afraid to eat Twinkies. 

Fast forward 25 years... 

Last week we had dinner at a friend's house. For some reason they decided we all needed to have fried Twinkies for desert. I'm not sure they had every previously made fried Twinkies, but they were way excited about them. I decided to face my fear head on and try a fried Twinkie. 

Turns out they are DELICIOUS! It tasted almost exactly like funnel cake. SO GOOD. 

I couldn't believe that it took me 25 years to get over that completely insane and unfounded fear of cream filled desserts (and donuts, because donuts are not desserts... right? Unless you get one of those donut sundaes at Krispy Kreme, which I'm pretty sure could induce a sugar coma. But those aren't cream filled, they're cream topped, so I'm totally not afraid of them and instead find them delicious.)

There are lots of other things I'm afraid of that are insane.

At some point in my life I will have to face those fears head on and not all of them will end as deliciously as the twinkie one did, but hopefully I'll learn something from them and grow to be a better person because of them.