Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Good morning crew,

Boy, did I learn a lesson about distributing candy yesterday (or Monday, rather). I had about four bags worth of miniature Snickers, Nestle Crunch, PayDays and something else I can't remember mixed together in a bowl. Whenever some little street urchin would ring my doorbell I would open the door and hold the bowl in front of them so they could select a piece (or sometimes two) of the candy they wanted.

Then about an hour into the night the bell rang to reveal a group of three kids accompanied by two young women (the mothers, I assumed). When I held out the bowl all three kids squealed in delight and grabbed as big of a handful as they could.

I immediately interjected with, "Hey now, HEY NOW!" Whereupon the two women leaned over to see what was going on.

I thought for sure they were going to chastise the youngsters, but when they saw the candy they both exclaimed, "Oooo! Chocolate!" and dug in for a handful themselves. I think I figured out where the kids learned their habits.

That one visit depleted my stock by about half.

After that I started going to the door with several pieces of candy in my hand and distributed it one-by-one.

That stretched me the rest of the night, but one ancillary benefit of this strategy was that I gave away all of the PayDays and was left with a dozen or so Snickers and Crunches at the end of the night.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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