The word smuggle makes me giggle. I have no idea why except some words do that for me. When Hillary
Melton-Butcher from Positive Letters…inspirational stories…. featured the word
“Smuggling” as her A-Z alphabet word posted here, I giggled. Then
this story popped into my mind.
I have a weakness for most sugary candies. When my kids were
young, every Easter I bought candy to fill their Easter baskets. Halloween, I
would buy candy to hand out to the goblins. Christmas—well the same, I bought
candy to fill the Christmas stockings.
My problem was that this task turned into an expensive
venture when I would buy the candy and then smuggle the candy (out of the
baskets--sometimes) the “Easter Bunny” had prepared or from the stash of candy I
had hidden and eat it.
Then off to the store again I would go to buy candy,
all over again. Thankfully, my metabolism was much better then.
One day, my (then) husband said to me after my run to the
store to purchase more candy, “I thought you'd already bought candy for the
baskets.”
I grinned and nodded, then rolled the half eaten Easter egg
with a hardish shell and creamy white middle, to the inside of my cheek. “I ate
most of it.”
He rolled his eyes and left the room.
A few years later, I decided that I wouldn’t buy ANY candy
for ANY occasion until the day before I needed it. This works much better for my
pocketbook, my waistline and my smuggling weakness.
And let's not forget the story of smuggling a box of sugar
cubes from my friend’s basement so we could eat the entire box, but when we
couldn’t, stored them elsewhere for future consumption. It didn’t really work out. Read
The Sugar War, if you haven't, yet.
Smuggling drugs, people and terrorists into any country is
not cool, terribly wrong and criminal.
My type of smuggling gives me--yes, giggles.
12 comments:
Oh wow you guys ate a box of sugar cubes? GROOSSSSSSSSS lol I love sugary treats too but strangely I don't really like the taste of sugar itself.
It really doesn't help our willpower problems when the stores start featuring holiday candy in August. I mean come on...who is actually going to buy a giant bag of Reeses or Kit Kats on Labour Day and save them, unopened, till Halloween????
You're a candy smuggler. hahahaha. That is funny. I can see why just thinking about it gave you the giggles.
Hi Teresa - candy smuggler you .. I thought you were going to sprinkle rock all over the Cornish crags as the Smugglers found you out stealing from their stash of Easter candy?! Well done and thanks so much for the link across ... cheers Hilary
I like this. Cute story.
I think my mom had the same problem. I like how smuggle sounds just like snuggle, yet the connotations are so different. Your story made me giggle for sure.
lol worse things to be than a candy smuggler
I smuggle food into my house and hide it from my teenage boys or they will eat EVERYTHING in one day:) I'm getting pretty good at it!
I've always smuggled food into movie theatres. And I've always felt guilty about it!
You are my kind of people (i.e., the kind that used to smuggle boxes of sugar cubes from the basement to eat the whole box).
Thank you for finding and following! I really appreciate it and look forward to more visits to the rural hood.
So very cute and funny! If we had ever decided to do baskets I probably would have done the same.
This was delightful, Teresa! I so associate "smuggle" with contraband that I didn't recognize it juxtaposed with "giggles." I thought, Wow a new word, like Muggles! LOL! I used to "smuggle" allsorts and Taverners sour drops out of my father's secret stash. He had a terrible sweet tooth which I inherited. Oh for the metabolism of youth! Happy IWSG day!
I've got a sweet tooth too. Unfortunately my metabolism hates my guts. Any other words that make you giggle?
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