I couldn’t pull Gary away from work if I sprouted a child from my forehead, but on Halloween he left work at lunch to spend an hour buying candy and staging the Halloween tableau at home. (Then, he went back to work.)
I get the idea he bought the candy at a convenience store. This is because he had a conversation about the Tootsie Rolls with the cashier, and because there is no better place to buy candy at its most overpriced.
Gary bought half the smallest size and half the middle size.
The small size is a “Midgee.” I don’t think the middle size has a name.
Gary later told me the cashier laughed hysterically when he called it a “chubby.”
I was horrified. “You did NOT.”
“She thought it was funny!”
Immediate backtrack. “No! I mis-spoke. What I said was, I called it a fatty. Then she laughed and said something about my growing up in the ’70s.”
Postscript: We had thirty kids, and only one adolescent. (The pedophile moved off the block this year.) Good year. Almost all the fatties/chubbies were gone by 8:30.
5 responses to “Gary on Halloween”
In my opinion, Tootsie Rolls are a gyp, chocolate-wise. Give me a Reese’s or a Kit Kat any day over a Tootsie Roll.
I didn’t think anybody actually ate Tootsie Rolls, and then my friend got in major trouble for stealing one of her daughter’s. and yeah, buying candy at a convenience store? Why not just hand out money?
I do believe, based on my very old knowledge of matters marijuana, that a “fatty” is a very big joint so that may have been why the cashier was laughing. 🙂 Better to be erroneously referring to pot than a penis. LOL.
Sorry. They look too much like cat poop to me. So does Almond Roca.
Tami – I was amazed to hear that Mounds was deemed the number one worst Halloween candy by a local paper. Really? Candy Corn? What about the Candy Corn? Not even the top/bottom three. Allison – And, the thing is, he’s buying it in bulk! Costco! Sams!Lazy Julie – True. I was much less horrifed by “fatty” than “chubby.” Becs – Oh. Eww. So do Baby Ruth.