It took me a while to understand that your question is about the bubble, not the gum. A couple of years ago, for some strange reason I was on a gumball kick. The business Costco sells the giant “Double Bubble” brand gum balls in 850 count boxes. It was evidently some sort of phase that I was going through and thank goodness it only lasted for 8–9 months. The fascinating thing that I found revealing about the truly unhealthy binge and addiction on my part was not so much my own predilection toward overdoing it with the gumballs, but the reaction of others when presented with a limitless supply of an item that had been imprinted since youth as an opportunity restricted to the interaction of quarter apiece involvement with happened upon machines. What I mean is that virtually anyone who spied the huge glass container filled to the brim with the bright rainbow of balls and sitting blatantly defenseless on the hall table – everyone was transported instantly to the age of 8 and reacted pretty much exactly as did the grandsons. In my entire life, I don’t think I’d ever been so popular. It was a lesson on just how durable are the impulses we acquire as kids. I’ll tell you this. If and when the wife runs off with the mailman, I will refill that jar and never be lonely!