Tum T Tum Tum Tums, TUMS

Grandpa Dayton lived in the same LDS ward as I did, growing up. He always sat on the back row of the chapel and if there was room when we arrived we would try to sit with him. He was always fun to sit by and usually very entertaining. You know how kids need something other than the speaker to entertain. As grandpa started to get older we as kids were not sure if he was trying to test us to see how how smart we were or whether he was just starting to lose it. As we would sit in church he would always say "want a mint?", then hand us what we initially thought was a mint until we popped it into our mouth. It would quickly become apparent that the supposed mint was far from a mint. It took my dad to tell us that what he was giving us was TUMS, which is an antacid used for indegestion. If grandpa was trying to see how gulible or dumb his grandkids were, he must of thought we were pretty dumb because we would take the mints every week. The first few weeks we did put them in our mouths, hoping that they truly were mints but after a few weeks we would just take one to be polite and would fake putting them in our mouths. I would usually end up with a pocket full of tums before I would through them away. I sure loved my grandpa and I have many memories that I will share along the way.