Rootin' fer scraps!

Yesterday one of my co-workers came to give me a souvenir she got on a trip to the Vatican. I wasn't there on the first day she came through to pass them out so I had to pick through the left overs. I ended up choosing a rose scented rosary, blessed by Pope Benedict, in a little plastic box, made in China, with a pic of Pope John Paul II. (Giovanni Paolo II)

My gifting co-worker, a very sweet, Hispanic, leftist Union steward stopped at our communal snack cart to partake of some macadamia nuts. Pouring them into her hand she dropped a few onto the floor. "Don't eat those," I said.

"Oh, she said seriously, I don't eat off the floor. I heard that Republicans eat off the floor, though." Then as she saw the look my face she said, "It's just something I've heard."