Oak and I took his little sister to an Easter Egg hunt at their local firehall. It was pretty cute, the Easter Bunny and Sparky the Fire Dog were there – not to mention free juice and cookies. The hilarious part was when the hunt began.

First of all, adults were to stay on the cement patio and watch the kids. This obviously did not happen. There were eggs all over the ground in plain sight, so there was no reason the kids would need help finding eggs. They were the plastic pop-open eggs, and had chocolates or a ticket for a prize inside.

Then we spotted the Easter Egg thief. At first, she looked like another parent helping her child find eggs. But no, she was opening the eggs to see what was inside, then either eating the candy or closing it and throwing it back on the ground. She would do this in bunches of 10 or so eggs at a time. So a lot of the kids were finding EMPTY eggs. You would have thought this 30-year old woman had never seen miniature sized candy bars in her life or something – or the play-dough that was being given out as special prizes was really important. Someone, get that woman to a dollar store. Geez.

Posted by Carrie on Sunday, April 20, 2003
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