What are the odds?

Yesterday, whilst picking up a bit of shopping after dropping Anika off at her piano lesson, I decided to buy a packet of fruit pastilles. I absolutely love the black ones. Lolly manufacturers please note, there is a huge market out here just waiting for you to make "black only" fruit pastilles. And please, I don't mean licorice flavoured (yuk), I mean the blackcurrant flavoured ones.


Usually in a packet you can expect around two or three black ones so when the first was green I wasn't worried. Then the next one was green, and the next one. Then the next one, and the next one and the next one....By the time I got a seventh green one I thought I'd check the labelling. A bit hard to do when you've unravelled enough to get seven out. The label didn't say anything about "green only" fruit pastilles so I unwrapped the next one - orange! Then green. I started taking notes:

I reckon that 10 out of 15 green ones is a bit unusual (unless workers at the factory also like the black/red/yellow/orange ones). And 1 out of 15 black ones is just unfair!

Lollies at this time of year remind me of Halloween. In Australia, thankfully, for a long time the only time we thought about Halloween was when watching "Meet Me in St. Louis". About 10 years ago suddenly Halloween was being pushed here. Catalogues came out with witchy costumes and everyone was encouraged to buy the lolly/chocolate specials to be prepared. It is probably a plot on behalf of the supermarkets to make money. Somehow I don't think it's ever really taken off in Australia. In that 10 years I think we've had about 3 children come to the door. Those 3 have received a chocolate and a gospel tract and have been happy enough with that. The Q family don't mind me buying chocolate in preparation because they get to eat it afterwards.

We'd much rather celebrate Reformation Day and the last of Anika's high school exams instead. With chocolate of course. 3 days to go!