4 It Was a Piece of Cake

CHAPTER FOUR IT WAS A PIECE OF CAKE Franny began assembling the mechanism she had designed. "Can't have your cake and eat it too," she scoffed. "Where do they come up with these things?" As she worked, Franny recalled when she conducted experiments based on other sayings she had heard her mom use.

AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY. But it has to be a REALLY BIG APPLE. A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH. BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT A BIRD IN YOUR HAND? WHOEVER SAID "AS EASY AS TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY" NEVER ACTUALLY TRIED TO DO IT.

At last her device was complete, and she demonstrated it to her faithful assistant, Igor. "Observe. Here, on my Time Warp Dessert Plate, I have a delicious piece of cake." Igor nodded. He was always ready to observe a delicious piece of cake. Franny gobbled it up quickly. "Now I've eaten it. So, of course, I no longer have it."

Igor shook his head. No cake. That IS sad. "But through a slight time warp, I can actually make a small zone on the plate go back to a point in the recent past when I had not yet eaten the cake." Igor's eyes widened as the cake reappeared on Franny's special plate. "And now I have it again," she said.

There was a way to have your cake and eat it too, and Franny had figured it out. "Easy as pie," she said.