I was cleaning out the nether-reaches of the Odyssey today when I found some leftover Halloween candy: 5 suckers and a piece of hard candy. 2 of the suckers were Dum-Dums while the other 2 were Valentine's suckers. Yes, you heard it right, Valentines. Part of our modest-starter-home neighborhood is gated because the houses there have waterfront property with docks. The houses are all around $700,000.00.
On Halloween evening as my friends and I took the kids trick or treating, we found a great many houses had their porch lights off, so we decided to take our kids to the "rich" part of the neighborhood because some passing trick-or-treaters told us the gate was open. I asked my friend Kristi what kind of candy did she think they would give out and she mentioned when she was a child the people in the more expensive homes would sometimes give out full size candy bars. I was thinking that would be a nice surprise for my boys to get treats like that as opposed to the mini Hershey's they were used to getting.
Well, you can guess what the boys came back with:
Not only are these 9 month old Valentines suckers, they also appear to be from some type of motivational work seminar, why else would they have the word CHALLENGE on them?
I don't know what else to say about that.
