What irony is this and how is it irony
I'd
them uninteresting.
looked forward to going in disguise to the Tomkeys' door, but they were off at the lake, and
their house was dark. Before leaving, they had left a coffee can full of gumdrops on the front
porch, alongside a sign reading DON'T BE GREEDY. In terms of Halloween candy, individual gumdrops were just about as low as you could get. This was evidenced by the large number
of them floating in an adjacent dog bowl. It was disgusting to think that this was what a
gumdrop might look like in your stomach, and it was insulting to be told not to take too
much of something you didn't really want in the first place. "Who do these Tomkeys think
they are?" my sister Lisa said.
