Buying Candy

By Rob Watson

 Today I was in Lowes waiting to pay $1,500 for a lawn mower. (and feeling fortunate to find one so inexpensive) When I looked over to the candy rack. There for all the world to see was a box of Butterfinger bars, the large ones, marked $2.99 each. The guy in front of me appeared to be about my age, so I said " did you ever think you would see a dime candy bar selling for three bucks" He looked at me for a couple of seconds without speaking, so I added " you look to be about my age, you have to remember dime candy bars." He smiled then and said "Yeah, and I remember searching ditches for coke botttles to sell for a penny a piece just to get enought money to buy a candy bar" I told him I remembered that very activity. Then he added " then they raised the deposit to two cents and we doubled our take." Yep," I said, "I do Remember.""If we got lucky we might find enough to buy a coke and a bag of potato chips" he added.

A while later I was in the hardware store and the clerk seemed to be my age, So I related the above experiance to him. He smiled and said he remembered those very things. On the way home, I was museing on three guys, raised a hundred miles apart, sharing the same experiances... searching ditches for coke bottles to get enough money to buy a candy bar. Then I began to wonder, how many school shooters ever had to search a ditch to get a candy bar.