| Andy's Candy |
| True Story that happened and stuff |
| This tragic tale begins when I was in Wisconsin visiting my mom for the summer. My cousins lived near by and my 8-year-old cousin, Andy, wanted to buy a game boy advance. Now these are around like 80 bucks or something, I don't know. So, he starts a candy cart. Him and his mom go to sams club and they pick out candy and stuff. So his goal now is like 150 dollars to reemberce (sorry about that spelling) his mom. He puts the candy in a little wooden wagon and makes a cute little name, Andy's Candy, and starts going door to door. Well, there is a baseball diamond pretty much kiddy corner to my house and every morning around 9 there is a baseball game of like 10-year-olds. So Andy gets all smart and starts selling every morning there. And his prices were good, nothing awful. And he was frankly honest about his goal. It was cute really. After about a week of selling on the baseball diamond, a mom of like forty comes up to him - i was there, watching Andy to make sure he doesn't get ripped off by some perv - and I don't remember exactly but it went something like this. "Do you have a permit to sell candy here?" "What?" "You know what I mean!" This is whe n I come in all pissed cause this lady is hustling an 8 year old boy. I become a little smart ass and tell her. "It's just candy." And she gets all pissed, Probably on her period, and snaps back "That little boy isn't letting any of the other children sell candy." She was pointing a finger at Andy. "What other children?! There hasn't been any children here for 6 years!" "Exactly! He's stealing the good spot! This spot should have to have a warrent for selling anything!" "Oh my gosh! He's just 8! How can anyone have a problem with an 8 year selling CANDY at a baseball game! You make it sound like he knocked out all competitors with his dirty business man wit!" And this how I learned to never fight with the power of middle aged woman. She goes up to the rec league umps, who are like 16, and starts bitching about this god damn Candy Monoply this kid has. I freak at the idiocy of the woman and say "Fine! Whatever! If you got a freaking problem with this kid here we'll just leave!" Now she got really really pissed off. I think she was shaking a bit, and had a vein popping out of her neck, "Excuse me young lady! Did you just say freaking to me?!?!?!" "Yes, I did. Could you start screaming about that instead to an 8 year old for trying to earn money." "What school do you go to?" I'm got all confuzzled at that. "What?" My cousin was grasping my leg on the vege of tears, I don't blame him. "I said, What school do you go to?!" "WHY?!" "I'm going to report you behavior." She sounded all cocky and proud. I was about to raise my eyebrow at this. "I don't live here..." "Well were do you live?" I'm ready to slap her...reeeeeally hard. I just thought screw it by then. "You know what lady. You win. It's wrong for kids to sell candy, it's wrong for people to stand up for them. It's all wrong. Sorry whatever." I start walking back, I'm pulling the cart with one hand and my cousins hand in the other.I mutter "I can't wait to get back to Detroit." And apparently it was withing earshot of her and she's all like "Ah hah! You live in Detroit." Again, I'm ready to slap her so fucking hard... "DEAR GOD WOMAN! Will you just give it up! Just let us leave like you intended in the first place! And we would've, half this stupid arguement wouldn't have occured if you just had let us leave!" And you can see some of these dads snickering and I look at them and turn red, She looks at them and gets all flustered and goes to her lawn chair. Me and Andy walked back to my house and Andy's dad is there. I tell him what happened and he gets all pissed you know cause he's a pimp and anyone that messes with his kid gets it. Me and Andy stay at the house and don't know what happened. I make him a comfort bagel, and we wait. Well, it turned out that the Ladies kid had started whining that he wanted to sell candy here, if it weren't for that one kid... The irony of this story is that i'm the shyist person alive. Whoo I just snapped on that one.... |
| Sorry about its length...Its my heroine story :) |