Toys for Tots


December 30, 2007 at 16:50 PST
“Toys for Tots” is a great thing.  Every year I try to purchase toys and take them to a donation center.  I moved this past year so I attempted to find a donation center closer to home.  I was driving down Pico and saw a familiar sign “Toys for Tots Donation Center” . . . fantastic!  So I followed a series of signs down a long wall overgrown wall with hedges and made a right on 14th Street and then another right, right into the middle of a graveyard.  And there was the bin, smack dab in the middle of rows upon rows of headstones.  I’m not normally a superstitious person but I couldn’t handle the stigma that would go along with these toys from the graveyard going to children.  I almost put the whole bin in my car but decided not to chance it.  How long had they been there? Maybe they were already haunted.  Whatever the case, I would not be depositing toys in a graveyard that day.

I got back in my car and my first thought was to drive home and write a short script about toys for tots gone awry, needy children fighting off haunted toys. But I still had a mission and kept driving until I found another site.  That was my first truly bizarre experience of December 2007.

This morning I saw JUNO and I thought it was a very smart and charming film and I recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Toys for Tots

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