The Butterscotch Trail

When I was a little girl, my friend Charlotte and I used to walk up to the local Piggly Wiggly store several times a week. We'd pool our change together and buy a bunch of penny candy. Back then you could buy a whole small grocery sack full for just a few bucks. One day, the Butterscotch disks caught our eye and we decided to buy just those and nothing else. We filled our sack and headed home. We got back to my house and started to pour the candy out on the sidewalk. That's funny...we thought there was alot more than what was coming out of the bag! Just then, Charlotte happened to spot something gold glistening in the street. It was a butterscotch disk! She picked it up and started looking around. There was butterscotch candy everywhere...in yards, on the street, in the gutter, across the highway! Seems our sack had sprung a leak, and there was a candy trail all the way back to the store 5 blocks away! We gathered it all up and stuffed our pockets full. Then we went back home to enjoy our candy feast! It's a good thing there weren't fireants in our area back then...

Ah to be a child again....