Quick with a joke, or to light up your smoke

Bob recently got out an old glass ashtray and put it on his nightstand intending to keep his lip balm in it.

Seeing no lip balm in it after several days, I got the idea to put something in it myself.

I went looking for what I wanted in these stores in this order:

1. Ace Hardware (they have a small, old-fashioned candy area, oddly enough)
2. TJMaxx (only looked there because it was next on my place to run errands)
3. Dollar Tree (the place I really expected to find it)

With no luck in any of those places, from the Dollar Tree, I googled “Nearby old-fashioned candy stores,” and lo and behold there was one a little more than a mile from me. It’s a place I’ve never heard of:

And finally, I found what I was looking for for Bob’s ashtray:

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