Candy? Check.
Kids’ costumes? Check.
Kids sick with coughs and sore throats? Check.
Wife away on business? Check. (but she’ll be back in time)
Medicinal whiskey (for me, not the kids)? Check.
Halloween can come, I’m ready.
Unlike Sunday, when some boys already came to our house, trick-or-treating early because they were going to be busy on Thursday… the nerve.
we bought candy that was all individually wrapped, just in case we get trick-or-treaters, but I doubt it. I don’t think they are any kids in our building. sniff.
You might be a lot more popular with the kids in your neighborhood if you keep the candy for yourself and pass out shots of whiskey to all comers.
It would make for a good story, anyway.
Eh, tried that last year. It was really hard to get some of them to take a drink, man. “Here, little kid, just one sip!”
And what if you were to pass out Zwetschenkn
They would egg my house, 100% certain.
Is trick-or-treaing a recent thing in Austria? Kids didn’t start doing it in the uk until about 10 years ago.
A little more recent here – I think it’s about 5 years old here. Beta mentioned tonight that we sort of started celebrating it after our trip to Ireland to pick up her harp, which was 5 years ago (she was impressed by Halloween preparations going on there, and went trick or treating in Dublin with friends).
We haven’t seen it here in Berkeley, but I hear that trick or treating started last weekend in other parts of the Bay Area, too. Boo, hiss!
I say Halloween should be the last Saturday in October, just like Thanksgiving is the last Thurs in November and Easter is the Sunday that falls 12 weeks after the Assumption or whatever. Ooh, it would correspond with Daylight Savings, if we did it that way. That’d be cool. Yeah.
Wish my husband were home…although he isn’t crazy about the kids coming and going and the dog going crazy. But I love it.