488 Rules for Life Quotes

“The handful of popcorn must be smaller than your mouth Don’t take large fistfuls of popcorn and push and shove them into your mouth like a toddler forcing a square peg into a round hole. If popcorn is spilling back into the feed-bucket or onto your lap and the floor around you, then you’re taking too much. I realise it’s dark and no one can see, but that’s no reason to suddenly start eating like a bulimic possum. Slow down, take smaller ‘handfuls’ and chew. With your mouth closed, obviously.”
― Kitty Flanagan, 488 Rules for Life

“You don’t need a giant wastepaper basket full of popcorn Just get a small one. The large ones are stupidly large. It’s physically impossible to eat that much popcorn because your face can’t cope with that amount of salt. Your mouth starts to pucker and it gets harder and harder to push each kernel through what has become a very restricted opening between your shrivelled up lips. That’s usually the time you put your enormous bucket of popcorn under your seat, promptly forget about it and then kick it over when you get up to leave. It then gets ground into the carpet and the popcorn-stink cycle is complete.”
― Kitty Flanagan, 488 Rules for Life