Last time you said you would talk about something else.
Right. How about candy?
Candy?
Yeah. Tell me. If you were going to open a candy store, where would you put it?
I’m not sure.
How about right across the street from an elementary school?
Not a bad idea.
Well, that’s what happened across from my school. As a teenager, I came to enjoy the more expensive candies. Like Hershey’s.
And I liked the Mounds bar. Remember how I said I liked the coconut-covered ice-cream bar? Well, I came to like the Mounds bar for the same reason.
And remember how I said I helped the young kids get across the street? Well, guess where they went. And I went. To the candy store. And, as young kids, without much money, we headed for the penny-candy counter.
Norman Rockwell captured it pretty well. There were so many kinds of penny candy. I hope I didn’t keep the store owner waiting too long
What could you get for only a penny?
Quite a bit back in those days. There was a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar I liked. Don’t know what they’d charge for it now. But only a penny then.
And there was a strip of paper with colored sugar dots on it.
They were fun to pick off and eat. Probably ate some paper too, but it was worth it. Especially for only a penny.
I guess so.