'There'll be Hell to pay!'

Made me think of like an admission price to Hades, like getting into the circus, later Disneyland.

And later made me think of the coins the dead are given to put into the cold pale hands of Charon. What the hell is a boatman on the river Styx going to do with all that money, Mum?

Remember also asking my Mum, with me standing in the doorway, with warm jacket on to play outside in the Kootenay snow, if the dead hadn't already paid enough.

"You don't want the spoon do you?"

Or, her worst, 'Where'd I put that spoon?" because I always hid it when there was Hell to pay.

And my favourite, when stomping in with grass stains and dirt and puddle water soaked pants, "Jesus if you don't look like a real 'rangytang.'

Took me a long time to find out she meant that I was a raggamuffin and not an orangutan.

Thanks for the invocations.