Helloween

We are now one hour and 15 minutes into the hellhole known as Halloween, and I’m beginning to wonder if we over-prepared this year.

As a birthday gift to me, Chris offered to man the door. I am afraid of children, so I accepted happily.

Chris bought three giant bags of candy from Target earlier today (marked down, because last year we spent about $30 on candy purchased prior to Halloween, and this year we said let them eat el cheapo gum), and was under strict orders to not let the children choose their own piece (or pieces, depending on how greedy they were) of candy. So far he’s only distributed one bag’s worth. However, the church at the end of our street, which last year was the source of the extra 200 kids we received, is once again holding a “Harvest Festival” which ends at 8:30, so we’ll see if business picks up then.

The dogs do not care for Halloween either.

So far the only exciting costume was a young lad dressed as the squire from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Chris said, “He even had the coconuts!” and “His costume was so good I gave him TWO pieces of candy!” to which I said, “He came last year!! The kid with the coconuts!” and, deflated, Chris said, “Oh. I didn’t see him last year” and I said, “He might have come when you were out buying the emergency candy after the kids threatened to burn down the house when we ran out and I started passing out our own stock of crackers.”

Now that I think of it, I didn’t say all that out loud. But it was certainly what I was thinking.

Posted by: Supersonic Jane | October 31, 2007 | 8:01 pm
Posted in: Bits