The Gum-Shoe...


You know how it is. It starts out so innocent--just a piece-- right? It's only chewing gum. But before you know it, the kids are addicted. They're spending allowance money on two, three, four packs a week. Soon, they're robbing your purse and raiding your pocket change. And all that good-for-nothing-gum ever really does is get people worked up, cause fights and bad feelings. The kids will really lay it down for a taste of Zebra Stripe. Even better is Bubbalicious. They'd sell their souls if they had any. Why, just yesterday Sam had Quinn in a headlock over some Wintergreen.

Next thing you know it starts showing up in all kinds of places: under the bed, stuck on the bathtub; you step on it on the kitchen floor. It's stuck to the seats of your car, and then you're pulling it out of someone's hair with a greasy tub of peanut butter by your side and an ice cube in your hand.

It's only a hop, skip and a jump away to breaking your kids out of jail with a file and a pick.

Forget the white lightening: keep your kids off chewing gum.