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RE: Happy Curmudgeon Halloween ~ REDUX ~ An Original, (Somewhat) Short Story, With One Photograph Of A Pumpkin ~
Oh yes I do indeed remember the talk every year! After hearing so much from the school as well as on the news (remember there were only 3 channels for news where I lived) I rarely ate any of the candies. For a fat guy, I surprisingly never was too big on sweets. They made it out so as the risk was just not worth the reward. TBH I actually favored the folks that would had out some change. Ive always loved cash lol.
You were lucky. I remember folks dumping a few pennies into the bag, but not much else of worth. Think it was mainly to disguise their running out of candy, rather than being generous. Probably so we wouldn't soap their window screens. (Wonder if kids still do that today. Maybe it's graduated to more heinous things...though I never actually did any of it, except maybe TP'ing a few girls houses, to show true love)
Haven't met too many folks that when young, didn't like candy. That is a good trait to have and carry on into adult hood. I fight that one all the time. I'm sure my dad would have loved that too. He was a dentist. But we kids weren't blessed with the non-candy gene. Maybe that's why we had two chairs and drill setups in the basement ( :
Sure now they just set the car on fire! Yeah its a guy thing to tease the girls you like. Not sure if the girls ever understand that though lol.
Yikes hope your dad never decided to try to save a bit by scrimping on the Novocaine!
No wonder I wasn't all that successful in the girl department back then. Might have been related.
Dad wouldn't give us any drill bits to play with (good call Dad), but used plenty of dulling juice when we went to his office to get pained. Think the sets were down there from when he and his dad re-did their office, maybe he couldn't part with the old stuff, or had a retirement plan for our basement. But those things are almost art work, when you look at them today. White glass, polished steel, belt drive drills, and beautiful enamel. Classic stuff.