Well, my friend Kellie is the apple of my pie. Kel has made some pie-high dreams come true for me after gifting me a tart tote. That’s a fancy pie bag.
I wrote in this column many months ago about falling in love with a fancy pie swag in Paris. It seems the French are actually pie-oneering this.
They run around town with a material pie bag swinging off their fashionable forearms for the sole purpose of safely carrying around pies. How darling!
Pies are my love language. I became quite obsessed with having a pie bag but it cost $150 and I could not justify buying one.
This is despite me dreaming of trotting through Sunshine Plaza in Maroochydore with a cherry pie tucked safely under my arm in its own little material bed. You see, I never met a pie I did not like — from the humble meat pie to the classic apple pie.
While I fondly remember seeing Mona Lisa at the Louvre and sighing at the beauty of the Eiffel Tower, it was the refusal to bring the pie bag into my life that haunted me.
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Unbeknown to me, Kellie tracked down another pie bag and surprised me at dinner by walking into my favourite restaurant with a red-and-white gingham fabric pie bag swinging sexily next to her.
And wait for it… it was packed with a warm apricot pie. I mean, does life get much better for this middle-aged broad?
Nope, it does not. What a friend!
The staff at the restaurant ran to get a bar stool for the pie bag to have its own seat of glory. Many other customers came to ask about the beautiful bundle. I have not seen so much joy and curiosity from a crowd in a long time.
It turns out that if you want to win friends and influence people, you should start taking out a pie as your new accessory.
The City of Love gifted me the greatest gift of all: pie squared.
Sami Muirhead is a (now semi-retired) radio announcer, blogger and commentator, wife and mum of three.
