Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 20, 2016

It didn’t matter how long I stayed and and how much “loot” I collected, it was all gone in 48 hrs

Ah the exotic feeling of power in a persona like a vampire of the movies. Powerful, top of the food chain with humans below them. That and eating candy still is such a joy at that age.

Ah, I love visiting “Charlie’s World.”

It’s so much saner than ours.

A true devotee.

Fangs are good for the caramel-filled candies, so you can suck them out instead of spilling it al over the place.

This is just a good escapist fantasy. Thanks Wiley.

What is also quite nice is that Mom just goes with the flow and doesn’t give him a bunch of grief over how this or that in his world doesn’t really work that way. And Charles goes along with her requests when she says it is time to end the game for that day.

You never want to rush a good thing.

Mine’ll last until February. I bought 10 lbs more than the kids needed.

Charlie has good imagination.

Those ubiquitous candy corns will last through nuclear devastation and will mate with cockroaches (who also survive anything), forming a new post human intelligent species on Earth called Cockycorns. It could be argued that description already fits humans themselves. Just saying.

This one’s reminiscent and spot-on, Wiley. My youngest son was a candy-holic, and could somehow make his stash last beyond Christmas. Empty wrappers would appear in his pants pockets – or in the lint trap of the dryer – well into January, and his mom and I could never figure out where he hid it. He finally ‘fessed up in his mid 20’s that he kept it hidden in the media stand behind the TV – you know, the old ones where the back end of the picture tube stuck way out the back. I can only think how warm and mushy those gummy bears and mini-Hershey bars must have gotten, but he still ate ’em.

That was one line that never rang true in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, when Sally said, “Thanksgiving? But I’m still eating Halloween candy.” My Halloween candy never lasted a week. She must either have a lot of it or very strict parents.

I had a neighbor friend who could make it last forever…It drove me crazy……Vonne, a couple of years ago I ate 3 and a half one pound bags of candy corn…..I did the same thing with Tootsie Rolls one year, too!

I remember one year, I had a desk drawer full of candy from Halloween, including some full size candy bars that are no longer made, like Milkshakes.