A trick-or-treat TERROR
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:17 pm
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.
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.