I once saw an attractive pink gumball machine at a salon, and it turned my head, as it was not the typical worn out steel gray with the noseprints of kids on the glass. As I peered inside, I saw a delightful pyramid of Pink Ribbon Gumballs. They were pure white with a pink Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon on them. Of course, I needed to buy one. I needed to find out if they were bubblegum flavor, or some type of mint like some white gum is. I chewed the first one too fast, and swallowed it by accident, so I needed to invest another quarter.
As far as gumballs go, they are not disgustingly sugary. Disgustingly sugary is defined as one of those rabbits at Easter that have the painted on pastel colors. Blech. Rather, these were pleasantly true to what they set out to do. The better underlying message is that the gumball machines generate donations for the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund. I am sure that you are not shocked, as you would seldom find anything with pink ribbons on it generating donations for the Tractor Pull Society, The League for the Suppression of Celery, or the Burt Reynolds 70s Moustache Awareness Foundation. No, it just wouldn’t seem to fit.
You can buy your very own pink gumball machine for $99.00. Part of the proceeds from the sale go towards WBCA. You can even buy gumballs to generate your own donation drive for the cause. On the website it states that if you vend 6 gumballs a day, you will empty the machine twice in a year. Is that a fact or a challenge? Somehow I sense that it is not a fact, but the gauntlet has proverbially been smacked down before me. Okay, smarty pants, let me just tell you that MY gumball machine is going to be a head of schedule and will empty out THREE times a year.
Do you have a business or restaurant and care about breast cancer? Toddle on over to Pinkribbongumballs.com and get your fix for a good cause. If you don’t have a high traffic area, maybe you just want to fulfill your dream of having your very own gumball machine to hog for your very self.
