Troll War

     It was my weekend with my Grandpa. That is when I heard the story.  It all started at dinner, when I asked where mushrooms came from.

     "I will tell you where they came from.  It all started in '52, when the trolls came out of the ground."

     Of course I didn't believe him, I mean who has ever heard of trolls coming out of the ground? It was when he went on that I started believing him.

    "Like I said, in '52 is when the trolls came.  They brought little hammers with them, and that's all. They came in groups of ten thousand, and there was 1,574 groups overall. The trolls knock over any thing in their way. They even knocked down trees if they had to. They started taking over then. They even recruited some humans!"

     That is when I started believing him.

     "The doggone little trolls even stole all the food.  In a period of one year, those little rascals took over China! That is when us Americans decided to jump in.  We had to drop a troll bomb on them to get them to leave!  The people were finally able to go back home to China."
     "What are troll bombs, grandpa?"
     " Well trolls, you see, hate nice smells so a troll bomb, when it explodes, smells like roses, sugar, spice, and everything nice"

     "Well that still didn't answer my question about what mushrooms are."

     " Oh yeah, the mushrooms are the little trolls hammers."

     And to this day, even though I am thirty-four and counting,  I still won't eat mushrooms or hammers or whatever those rotten things are.