So another persons post made me think of this terrible memory.
I was about 5 or 6 years old and was dressed as belle from beauty and the beast that year. I went to my grandparents after school and waited for my mom to get home so I could go trick-or-treating. She finally came home and I got dressed and headed down the street. I was getting some good candy and all excited at the creepy decorations. Then we get to this one house - I knocked and a woman came out with her basket for trick-or-treaters. And guess what was inside.......
A TOOTHBRUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was mortified. I thought I had done something wrong that year and didn't deserve to get candy. I was only 5 and felt like santa had left me coal on christmas morning. I was so upset I started crying. The woman felt bad so she got me some sugar free gum from her purse. It turned out the woman's husband was a dentist so they had a ton of free toothbrushes and felt that promoting good brushing habits was a good idea. Needless to say - they never handed out toothbrushes again.
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Toothbrush
Just out of interest. Was the woman wearing a black pointey hat, holding a broomstick, and did she have a black cat twisting around her ankles?
The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
And the trees have a silver glare;
Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,
And the harpies of upper air,
That flutter and laugh and stare.
And the trees have a silver glare;
Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,
And the harpies of upper air,
That flutter and laugh and stare.
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What a cruel, humorless person!! I would give out candy toothbrushes for revenge. I used to hate it when people handed out change, pennies, nickels and dimes. Seriously, use the change jar to go buy some mary janes or black and orange peanut butter thingys, at LEAST!
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
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Now you know how my kid felt the year the reilgious fanatic gave him a Catholic church card with FIGHTING MICHAEL stabbing a dragon to death. (And it was an old school reprint...we're talking vivid rich colors and flowing blood..) Now, he had at LEAST a warning this was gonna be a doufus call as they were playing spooky church music on the way in and there were ANGELS from the Christmas display on the lawn...but it also made me wonder if those people who 'witnessed for Jesus Christ using Chick tracts' got THEIR houses egged back to the Stone Age for their efforts..or, if, like me, the recpients found them just so FREAKY they actually looked forward to seeing what new paranoia they brewed up every year...
But yeah, I can see how getting the tooth brush would bring you down...
But yeah, I can see how getting the tooth brush would bring you down...
Future events such as these will effect you in the future