Like every other 8 year-old, N has become keen on having a gumball machine with gumballs. Well, lucky for him, A procured not one but two gumball machines when she was about his age. I found one of them in the basement about a month ago and brought it upstairs for him. Of course, it had no gumballs, and I've been looking for gumballs for a while. I went to CVS yesterday – no dice. So today I went on Amazon and ordered some. I told him that they were supposedly coming by the end of the day. All day, he's been looking out for them. A package came from Amazon around 5:30, but sadly it didn't contain the gumballs. I told him they'd come tomorrow. Well, while we were eating dinner around 7:30, the doorbell rang. N yelled, "Maybe it's the gumballs!" Dad went to the door… and it was the gumballs!

Needless to say, he was very excited. The quarter is needed to get the gumball, but the quarter just falls below the machine, so you can just use it over and over And the gumballs lose their flavor after about 90 seconds. Sounds about right.