We are now on the downhill slide into winter. I didn't pass out candy at my own home last night, but went over to a friend's instead. I had several observations:
1. Trick-or-treating is now a multi-generation event (or at least I had not seen it before). The youngest t-o-tr was about 2 months old, maybe...and the oldest was about 50 something. Of course the parents were taking the kids around, but some had grandparents trudging along as well (not in costume though).
2. Children are rude. The littlest ones didn't quite have the concept, but they knew the candy was supposed to go in the bucket--they would look at my hand, look at the bucket, look at my hand look at the bucket--that was kind of cute. Then you had the ones that would say "put the candy in the bag"--not cute. We had to coax a number of the older kids to say "Trick or Treat." Surprisingly, probably about 30-40% (maybe a little more)said "thank you"--I didn't think it would be that high.
3. If you are going to t-o-t, at least be in costume, if not stay home, cause you are just begging at that point. Saw this from adults and children.
4. The children who weighed the most(and didn't need all that extra sugar) were consistently the same ethnic background.
5. Why be just a witch or just a princess when you can be a monster witch or a zombie princess :D
6. The best costume of the night---a refridgerator...complete with cereal boxes on top, ice cream and ice cube tray in the upper portion and magnets and drawings on the door...really cool.
7. Drag is alive and well...as is the future of the GLBT community of the town.
8. A lot of dads and older brothers were taking the little ones around--nice to see.
9. T-o-ts move like zombies--a whole herd of them at a time, moving slowly towards the door, reaching out their arms, not really saying anything but their mouths are gaping open.
10. The little Snickers will be on sale :D and it is hard to find a decent women's costume on the day of Halloween at *******, but you are guaranteed to find some strangely dressed people there, more so than usual.
