It was not a nice night for trick-or-treating. Rainy and cold! I wasn’t sure how many kids to expect, but we had stocked up just in case. Some years we have seen 200 plus kids in varying degrees of costume.
Halloween is typically a very stressful night for my dog Rascal. He just doesn’t get it and will bark himself hoarse from his vantage point in the front window as child after child comes to the door. I remember reading an Agatha Christie novel once in which beloved detective Hercule Poirot explained why the dog barks at the mailman. As he said, who is the one person who comes to your door day after day, but is never allowed in? The Mailman. Clearly he is an unsavory character! I guess the same can be said of trick-or-treaters!
This year, my daughter had class late and my husband decided to take our poor dog out for awhile away from the chaos, so I was home alone handing out candy. I saw that my daughter must have contemplated, and then decided against wearing devil horns to school since they were lying on the table in the hallway. Red with sparkly sequins. I thought ‘what the heck’ and put them on.
Somewhere my husband had managed to get a deal on brand name, full size chocolate bars so that is what I was handing out. Needless to say, I was pretty popular! I got a lot of “Wow” and “Gee, thanks!” and even one or two “Cool horns”.
The best comment by far however came from a young man who looked to be about 12. He came at the tail end of a large group of kids. When I put the large candy bar in his bag his eyes got huge and he smiled from ear to ear. “Thanks! That’s awesome” he said as he took it. He turned and ran onto the next house and he must have seen another group of kids that he knew and I heard him shout at them, “Hey, you guys…make sure you check out the chick with the horns”.
I chuckled about that one all night!
I didn’t see any kids collecting for UNICEF. Do they even still do that? I did have a couple of older kids come by asking for canned goods for Community Care. I should probably replace those tins of tuna before anyone goes looking for them.
Happy Halloween
Halloween is typically a very stressful night for my dog Rascal. He just doesn’t get it and will bark himself hoarse from his vantage point in the front window as child after child comes to the door. I remember reading an Agatha Christie novel once in which beloved detective Hercule Poirot explained why the dog barks at the mailman. As he said, who is the one person who comes to your door day after day, but is never allowed in? The Mailman. Clearly he is an unsavory character! I guess the same can be said of trick-or-treaters!
This year, my daughter had class late and my husband decided to take our poor dog out for awhile away from the chaos, so I was home alone handing out candy. I saw that my daughter must have contemplated, and then decided against wearing devil horns to school since they were lying on the table in the hallway. Red with sparkly sequins. I thought ‘what the heck’ and put them on.
Somewhere my husband had managed to get a deal on brand name, full size chocolate bars so that is what I was handing out. Needless to say, I was pretty popular! I got a lot of “Wow” and “Gee, thanks!” and even one or two “Cool horns”.
The best comment by far however came from a young man who looked to be about 12. He came at the tail end of a large group of kids. When I put the large candy bar in his bag his eyes got huge and he smiled from ear to ear. “Thanks! That’s awesome” he said as he took it. He turned and ran onto the next house and he must have seen another group of kids that he knew and I heard him shout at them, “Hey, you guys…make sure you check out the chick with the horns”.
I chuckled about that one all night!
I didn’t see any kids collecting for UNICEF. Do they even still do that? I did have a couple of older kids come by asking for canned goods for Community Care. I should probably replace those tins of tuna before anyone goes looking for them.
Happy Halloween
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