Monday was my Grandma Shirlene’s birthday. She died in 2004, but it is hard to forget her birthday because it is two weeks after mine and a day after my cousin’s and we always had an excellent end of August birthday celebration.
Grandma’s favorite gum was cinnamon Trident. I never actually asked her if this was true, but based on the one million packs (over half of them stale) in every corner and drawer in her house I think it’s safe to assume. I have many fond memories of chewing lots of stale gum at her house.
Sometime during our “courtship” Aaron and I realized that we both loved cinnamon Trident the most. And we both lamented that they had recently changed the recipe to add some sort of anti-cavity junk that made it taste worse and lose flavor faster. Eventually they stopped making it entirely. We were both very sad. We found some once or twice in Ecuador, but it was hard to find and also lost flavor even faster.
On Monday we were in Redmond for a job interview for Aaron, and had a bit of time to kill plus he had stinky breath, so a stop at the store for gum seemed like a good idea. I waited in the car with Harmon and guess what Aaron came back with?
That’s right. Cinnamon Trident. Thanks Grandma Shirlene, for a birthday miracle!
What an awesome, happy, sweet, wonderful experience! So nice when they come back to wish us well!
Who needs anti-cavity junk anyway?!