#SongoftheDay Pennies from Heaven (Billie Holiday)
My mother doesn't often tell me stories from her childhood, but she told me one the other day, and now I'm going to pass it on to you.
I'd been telling her about trick-or-treating with my friends, as a child. Since I went to school out of district, all my classmates lived in a much nicer neighbourhood than I did. Many of them lived in what I call Home Alone Houses: mansions before McMansions were a thing. Whenever I could, I went trick-or-treating with them, because you got way better candy--sometimes even full-sized chocolate bars!
One of the houses on our route belonged to a real estate agent. We always saw her picture in the local paper, so, to us, she was famous. Like a movie star! And of course a movie star would give out full-size chocolate bars, so we were so excited as we raced up to her house.
But when the door opened, it wasn't the real estate agent--it was her husband. And he didn't give us full-size chocolate bars.
He gave us raisins.
The story my mother told me in return was kind of the opposite. She told me that all the kids in her lower-class neighbourhood knew where a dentist lived. That was the house to hit, because when you got there, the dentist would be sitting at an open window on the second floor. When you yelled out "Trick or Treat" the dentist would toss nickels and dimes onto the lawn, and all the kids would scramble to find them.
"That was a lot of money, back then," my mother assured me.
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I'd been telling her about trick-or-treating with my friends, as a child. Since I went to school out of district, all my classmates lived in a much nicer neighbourhood than I did. Many of them lived in what I call Home Alone Houses: mansions before McMansions were a thing. Whenever I could, I went trick-or-treating with them, because you got way better candy--sometimes even full-sized chocolate bars!
One of the houses on our route belonged to a real estate agent. We always saw her picture in the local paper, so, to us, she was famous. Like a movie star! And of course a movie star would give out full-size chocolate bars, so we were so excited as we raced up to her house.
But when the door opened, it wasn't the real estate agent--it was her husband. And he didn't give us full-size chocolate bars.
He gave us raisins.
The story my mother told me in return was kind of the opposite. She told me that all the kids in her lower-class neighbourhood knew where a dentist lived. That was the house to hit, because when you got there, the dentist would be sitting at an open window on the second floor. When you yelled out "Trick or Treat" the dentist would toss nickels and dimes onto the lawn, and all the kids would scramble to find them.
"That was a lot of money, back then," my mother assured me.
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