Having Eddie For Dinner
I wasn’t alive to witness this but my mother told me about it. Her grandma had a duck named Eddie. Eddie could be very mean to people (i.e. my mother) he didn’t like, but very sweet to others (her grandma and her cousin, we’ll call her Abbie). Eddie and Abbie were especially inseparable.
Well one day around Easter, Grandma and the other adults tell the kids that they decided Eddie should go live in the park with the other ducks and live a fulfilling duck life. None of the kids were particularly upset about this except for the cousin.
Cut to a few years later when they (my mother and her cousins) are about 14-16. Abbie and her brother (Billy) are arguing about something pretty intensely while my mom and my uncle are watching. Billy decides to go for the kill and yells, “WELL WE ATE YOUR DUCK FOR EASTER!”
The argument stops, Abbie turns to my mom and uncle to ask if it was true to which they nodded the affirmative. As it was she was the only one who didn’t know Eddie’s true fate.
And just a note, my grandma (at least according to my mother) didn’t do this out of maliciousness or spite but for practicality. Eddie wasn’t really a pet to her, just a farm animal. Story credit: Reddit / luckynumber3