Trixie Sue was in a predicament. So not only were they all broken within the month, they were all broken within the week.

Her husband, Billy, had warned her against it, saying that they would all break within a month. But what she hadn't anticipated was that her three boys would not. However, porcelain plates were not cheap, and broke easily. How badly she had wanted some nice, porcelain plates. She sighed, letting all of her breath seep out.

She had wanted simple, nice plates that were easy to pick up food on, and did not get soggy.

Her idea of an ideal plate would be hard, cheap tableware, that did not soak up water too easily. She had insisted that they wouldn't, that she would take good care of them, and she would. Previously, before they had bought the plates, they had lived on white paper plates, which not only made is practically impossible to scrape food on their forks, but also got soggy if you were having a sauce, like spaghetti.

So they finally bought the plates, which she did take care of very nicely.