Polly Want a Tic-Tac?

Each year we have a summer camp related to a pirate theme. I love to have the kids make shipwrecked pirates drifting on tongue-depressor rafts. This year it has been tougher than usual to locate cocktail swords for the teeny tiny clothespin pirates. I was doing a little victory dance in the check-out lane at Albertsons until the computer refused to recognize the UPC for the swords. Since the checker had no idea of the cost, and I had only a vague feeling of $4.99/40 swords, I told the young man about making teeny tiny pirates. He was quite impressed, and invoked the Law of the Sea. He scanned a pack of Tic-Tacs for sixty-nine cents for each pack of cocktail swords. I’m betting he goes home tonight and considers himself with an eye patch in the bathroom mirror.

Avast ye cowardly scum!