Back when Junior was little, he wanted the dinosaur toy in a box of Post cereal. I bought the cereal as an occasional treat but when we got home there wasn’t a toy inside. I called Post a dozen times over the course of six months (on principle, ya know) and they promised each time to send the toy but they never did. That was about 15 years ago and I have never bought another Post product and never will.
What I remember best were all those baseball cards from the 40’s and 50’s...that I tossed when I cleaned my room really, really good. I’d be a millionaire today. Ho Hum...
We were usually never allowed sugar cereal but on one trip we got to take along a box of Fruity Pebbles with a ‘Ghostly Grabber’ (glow-in-the-dark ladder-type forceps) inside. I was on pins and needles awaiting a big bowl of Pebbles and the prize inside the next morning.
Another kid from another family decided he would help himself to both.
I was only 8 or 9 but I think I became a conservative at that moment as I watched some chancer help himself to whatever he wanted without so much as a please or a thank you.