My favorite trip to the candy store

Mooresville NC

07 October, 2020

10:33 AM

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Thinking back in time and of things in the past many memories come to mind. I have found that sometimes the things that didn't matter back in the day end up being defining memories. I was thinking back on a memory that flashed back at me when I was shopping for my favorite candy boxes at the store the other day. I was walking down the candy boxes aisle and then it came back to me a time when I was able to enjoy the same candy with my grandfather. My grandfather has been gone for many years but the memory of certain candies can really bring back good times. My mother also has the same memories of her father with maple candies too. The Fall season just hit and when I was walking in the store I saw these season maple candies. They never come out but during the fall and Halloween season. It instantly brought me back to being a child. That is the power of marketing and taste I guess. We used to visit my grandparents about twice a year and that was a big deal for my family. We lived 10 hours north of them and would always drive down to the southern tip of Alabama to visit them. They lived in the middle of nowhere a hundred miles away from a major city. And a major city in Alabama back then was not that big. We still enjoyed visiting because it was so much more wild and simpler back then. Well, my Grandfather lived next to the only gas station in town. Down a dirt road two miles away they had a gas station and it was filled with the best of candies. My grandfather would take my and my brothers and sisters and put us all in the back of his truck. He would give us each between 5 and 15 cents each. It was a big amount of money to us back then and what was amazing was the amount of candy we could buy in this tiny town gas station. I remember the truck always being hard to climb into. It was always hot, but it was super cool to hop in the back and drive in the country. It felt so wild and would never even be allowed in my city. We would have been pulled over now and he would have been put in prison. No harm ever came to us and we had a great time doing it. But I remember riding in the back and hopping out and going into a store that looks like its barely standing. It was so old and dusty everywhere. But the time spent looking for candy was so much fun. My grandfather would always get the same thing. It was a pack of maple candies and he would go and share them with my Mom when we got back. I can never forget those moments now and what seemed like a hot trip with a bit of a treat at the end is one of the few memories of my grandfather I still remember. I was still pretty young when he passed so, the memories are far and few. But next time you are eating candy with your grandparents or grandchildren remember those moments may be cherished for a long time. https://goo.gl/maps/gd2PuXPKHw...