Walking through the mud room, I saw something disturbing. There in the pouch of my son’s backpack was a carton of cigarettes. I approached the backpack slowly. Maybe he had found them. Maybe they were the candy variety. Maybe I would need to explain about addiction, lung cancer, and insurance rates.
I looked closer and I was shocked. The carton that I was so sure was cigarettes was actually an oversized box of generic raisins.
Raisins? Really? I guess this should come as no surprise considering the aggressive marketing that Big Dried Fruit has used to target America’s youth. I guess I never thought that it would have happen in my house. I was wrong. Wrong about the cigarettes. My child appears to have a raisin problem.