L is for Lollipops

      You find them everywhere, at the grocery store, and at the bank.  Business establishments love to hand out free lollipops to kids.  Every time I go to the bank I see the cups full of them on top of the counter tempting anyone who doesn’t have the willpower to just say no.




       I am just as guilty as any.  Free candy?  Hell yes! Count me in!  Who can just take one?  What harm is there in just one innocent lollipop?  Your little darling loves them so!!  The next thing you know the kids are sneaking more than one.  When I was a kid, I loved lollipops.  I would go through tons while I read countless books.

        All of a sudden the Day of Judgment comes.  You are sitting beside your kid in the dentist office in complete shock as the dentist lowers the boom.  Those innocent lollipops did their damage.  Sugar on a stick the dentist calls them and the result is a mouthful of cavities in need of a mouthful of stainless steel crowns.  Thousands of dollars later the lesson has been learned the hard way.  Was the pain, agony, and dentists bill worth the aggravation?  My guess would be no, probably not.