Perhaps everyone recalls his or her high school English teacher issuing, at one time or another, the following reprimand to his or her class as it pertains to the critical review of students’ written work: “Don’t tell me; SHOW ME!” Here, the teacher was trying to get you to use colorful, sentient adjectives to “paint” a picture which would make the reader see and feel exactly what the writer experienced. But these teachers may well begin to understand your predicament if you had to articulate your culinary experience at Guma’s Family Restaurant in West Chazy; for how else you can you possibly describe “Yummmmm,” “Ooooh,” “Yessssssss” and “Wowwwwww,” since these words are so explosively self-explanatory? And if these descriptors weren’t enough, all one would have to do is to watch Guma’s cumstomers smile as they slump down in their seats with every bite of their legendary homemade pies that are more than enough to have you trading pie-allegiance for Guma’s instead of your very own grandmother’s.
In this one narrow instance then, it’s okay to disregard your English teacher’s exclamations; so instead of describing your experience at Guma’s to your friends and relatives, just take them there so that they know first hand what you’re talking about – and once they do, you’ll have a friend for life, and your mother in law just might begin to warm up to you.