Once upon a time, in a town where Halloween was celebrated with uncontained fervor, lived a dentist. This was no ordinary dentist, he was fear personified, the very reason children dreaded Halloween. His name? Dr. SweetTooth, the candy snatcher.
Every Halloween, while children joyfully plundered houses for sugary sweets, Dr. SweetTooth, with a horrifying grin, plotted candy confiscation. He’d exchange their candy for toothbrushes, mouthwash, and worst of all, dental floss! Children whimpered as their hard-earned loot vanished, replaced by the mundane necessities of oral hygiene. This year, the children had decided, no more!
Bob, the leader of this lil’ rebellion, had a surprise in his Jack-o’-lantern. As Dr. SweetTooth’s gloved hands reached into Bob’s candy stash, expecting colorful wrappers, he pulled out an ancient tooth—the tooth of an extinct Sabertooth.
The ‘Candy Snatcher’ screamed, dropping the tooth and scampering away. The neighborhood echoed with children’s victorious laughter. From then on, Dr. SweetTooth stuck to filling cavities.
The sudden twist in the tale? Well, rumor has it, the Sabertooth’s tooth was nothing more than a finely carved piece of carpentry from old Mr. Jenkins workshop. And the irony of a dentist fleeing at the sight of a tooth still gets everyone cackling to this day! There’s some justice in this trick of a treat.