Gumball machine

Grandma had a gumball machine. It was heavy and looked real expensive with it's little knobs, like something you would see of an old Sears Roebucks catalogue from the '20s. As kids we adored this gumball machine which spat out brightly colored sour balls because it was so different from the other quarter-a-cavity works found at gas stations. No, this wonder did not need money. Simply twist the dial and a sour ball would roll down and land in your hand. We thought we were on top of the world when Grandma would let us twist the machine's shiny knobs. Sadly, when Grandma died, so did the sour ball machine. Now when I see a kid with red syrup running out of a mouth stuffed with candy, I think about sour balls and that gum ball machine.