By:
The Dude on the Right
You could say that I never learn, but I think I just like being able to buy a
boat-load of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for next to nothing. It was
another Halloween.
Year after year after having moved into my Dude-Pad, I
wonder about Halloween and just how many kids I will get visiting my doorstep,
dressed in those cute costumes that look so much more comfortable than the ones
I had (those plastic masks with the stretchy band holding it on your head had to
be the most uncomfortable thing in the world, but as a kid, I didn’t care
because I was transported into a world all my own. Anyway, I digress.)
But year after year I buy the Peanut Butter Cups, and year after year, I only
get visited by a few kids. There was, of course, the one year, when the
high school crowd crashed our townhouse area and I was able to unload most of my
stash, but it felt wrong since none of them were wearing costumes and their
"candy bag" usually was a pillow case. But in that year I was on a diet
again, and the last thing I needed were extra Peanut Butter Cups around, so the
teenagers were getting three or four at a drop.
Each year I expect an
onslaught of kids, especially the year 2004 when Halloween was on a Sunday and I
would actually be present for the entire "Trick-or-Treating" period, but even
that year the number of visitors was pretty small, and I don’t really know what
I was expecting, but when I was at my local grocery store the other day, there
they were, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup bags, at 2 for $4, so of course, expecting
an onslaught of kids, I bought four bags.
Wow, was that an over-calculation.
This year I’m on a diet again. I’ve been doing doing pretty well on the
exercise side, but the food side has been up and down, and I just want to know:
WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING WHEN I BOUGHT FOUR BAGS OF PEANUT BUTTER CUPS?
Why do I ask that? Because I had one trick-or-treater visit the Dude-Pad.
He was a little vampire, probably about 7 years old, and thinking about it know
I should have given him four bags of Peanut Butter Cups. No teenagers
dressed as teenagers carrying pillow cases I could have unloaded candy to, no
college kids Trick or Treating for UNICEF so I could have given them a buck and
5 peanut butter cups. Nope, I had one little boy show up and now I have
pretty much four bags of candy to try not to eat all at one time.
I hate
Halloween.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
