Several
years ago on a family trip, we stopped at the Corn Palace in South
Dakota. Matt bought a corn cob sucker there. When we were back on
the road, Matt and Joe were wrestling around in the van, and Matt
hit Joe in the head with the sucker. The sucker shattered, and Joe's
forehead started bleeding. Lisa was less than sympathetic about
Joe's injury. From then on, corn cob suckers were an inside joke
for the family. On Matt's last trip with the family in August of
2005, Matt and Joe recreated the corn cob sucker moment.