Tuesday, April 28, 2009

candy from strangers

My son's birthday is this week, and I'm in party planning/cake making mode. This year's cake is going to be a golf course theme.

After picking him up from school today, I decided to run him by one of the local convenience stores with me to see if we could find the candy we need for decoration. We didn't have any luck, as that store only carries chocolate bars, ice cream and slushes. So we headed back to the van, when a young man came up to the van window and held up a hand, indicating I should wait a minute. I rolled down the window, and he asked me if I was the woman looking for candy. Um, yes. He said "I can hook you up"....pardon? Then he told me he was the Cadbury man, on a merch trip, and he had some things in his van he could give me. I think one of the packages he gave me might work too.

It just felt like I was being given contraband candy in the parking lot of the store.

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