Sticky dots
Jan. 20th, 2007 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rickvsThis would be a public-egg-on-my face story, if I hadn't caught myself in time.
Our local compounding pharmacy often sets out samples of hard candy, or their house brand of cough drops, or some other cheap and edible sussies that they're trying to suggestive-sell while you're checking out.
While standing in line there the other day, I was idly looking at a small display container full of tasty-looking spheres, each about the size of a ball bearing. They were colored bubblegum pink, mint blue or wintergreen, and clumped together for easy pickup, although they left no apparent sugar residue on my hands. They were squishy to the touch, and I figured they were some room-temperature equivalent of the ice cream dots that I sometimes buy from mall concession stands.
I almost put a handful of them in my mouth.
Then I looked more closely at the packaging, and realized that these things were sold as a building toy, sort of the next iteration of Legos.
So I put them back, paid my bill and left.
Our local compounding pharmacy often sets out samples of hard candy, or their house brand of cough drops, or some other cheap and edible sussies that they're trying to suggestive-sell while you're checking out.
While standing in line there the other day, I was idly looking at a small display container full of tasty-looking spheres, each about the size of a ball bearing. They were colored bubblegum pink, mint blue or wintergreen, and clumped together for easy pickup, although they left no apparent sugar residue on my hands. They were squishy to the touch, and I figured they were some room-temperature equivalent of the ice cream dots that I sometimes buy from mall concession stands.
I almost put a handful of them in my mouth.
Then I looked more closely at the packaging, and realized that these things were sold as a building toy, sort of the next iteration of Legos.
So I put them back, paid my bill and left.
