I told my husband this yesterday and I had never told anyone before, his reaction was strong enough to make me think harder about it.
As a kid, around 6 I was given a piece of gum on Halloween that I decided was the best gum I would ever have. Just the perfect gum, it kept its flavor all night.
When I was done with it that night I stuck in to the shelf at the top of my closet, which was my special hiding place.
Just about everyday after school I would climb at least 6ft to get up onto that shelf just to hang out there and read and every time I chewed the magic gum. It never got dusty and it never lost its taste! After three years it still tasted like grape and I was convinced it was actually getting sweeter.
After around three years my dad cleaned my room and found it. He threw it away just thinking I was a gross kid that stuck it up there once.
I mourned that gum for a long time and I can still picture the exact taste decades later.
Edit: I agree that it’s gross. I am no longer 6. Parental supervision is cool.
Edit 2: I have no clue what kind of gum it was, I wish I did. It was purple (and eventually grey) and most likely Mexican
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yeah no that’s um.. questionable
Well…that’s interesting. Kids do weird things so I’ll just leave it up to that lol.
Violet Beauregarde would be proud! What brand?
Plot twisted, a new piece was put there every day for you
I want to try whatever type of gum that was
im just glad this happened during your childhood. I was scared this was gonna be recent.
Yoooo bruh wut ?
What else was in the special drawer?
which fkn brand of gum
In a similar vein I loved Bubbalicious Grape Gum and I would chain-chew through an entire packet but I’d just keep adding new gum to the old gum so at the end of the day I had this monster glob of gum in varying shades of fading purple-grey.
They stopped making it for a while and I mourned so hard. When it finally came back I was over it. A few years later I moved on the peace-mango Trident layers gum. God, it was so tangy and delicious and I only shared if I really liked you. Got over that one after a couple years.
Now I am an adult and I prefer Cinnamon gum because I am a masochist.
Honestly, kids do weird things. This is less gross than booger eating in the grand scheme of things 😀
That’s some willy Wonka everlasting gobstopper shit 😂
You were a kid. Kids are gross. My sister collected her scabs in a Tic Tac box as a child. She’s now a sensible, thriving adult.
I can envision an ad campaign coming out of this
This is a very cool story. You should write a book about it