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A trick-or-treat TERROR

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:17 pm
by mandy0221
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.

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:20 pm
by LadyLestat
OH MY FREAKING GOD!!! You have got to be joking!!! Who would do that to someone!?!?!?!?! :cry:

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:37 pm
by Winnie Sanderson
When I was growing up the dentist around the corner from my house gave every kid a tooth brush and an apple.....LOL

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:34 pm
by autumn
LOL! I started cracking up reading your post! Im sorry!! That just sounds so funny. But at the same time, its not :lol: You are right, its like Santa leaving coal in your stocking.

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:39 pm
by Spooky Sam
HAHAHA! Today my friend was like, "You know what really sucks? When people hand out toothbrushes instead of candy on Halloween!"

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:17 pm
by MHooch
You poor girl...I'm sure it traumatized you!!! Your story made me chuckle! :lol:

Toothbrush

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:04 am
by Boo
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?

Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:00 pm
by mandy0221
Oh lord you guys make me laugh.....no she was just a normal old woman. They had kids that were all grown up so I dont think they understood the importance of candy to a kid anymore.

Looking back it just makes me laugh and reminds me never to give out a toothbrush.

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:12 am
by geekmidwinter
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!

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:39 am
by uncletor
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...