Halloween Missives

• This morning Zac and sister were fighting over a doll she was playing with first when he tried to draw me into their tangled web and officiate the struggle in his favor- of course. Instead I instead told him to,"Leave your sister alone and go play with your monkey." (his favorite toy monkey is what I meant).
• I asked him whether the same monkey was a boy or girl- he replied,"Both".
• A lot of adults are trick or treating these days- not just dressing up in the spirit of things and accompanying their children- They're going door to door and chanting,"Trick or treat smell of my feet..."
• Ridiculous.
• Contains: Milk, Wheat, Soybeans and Peanuts
• Who would have guessed Twix bars are so healthy?
• I heard on the radio before we left that pedestrian strikes by cars go up 25% on Halloween night. As I left work without time to change out of my black scrubs.
• When I was little there used to be a lawyer who lived in a big, fancy house in Decatur TX who would hand out full size candy bars.
• A true American hero.
• God bless that man.
• That house is kind of dump now.
• There was also a little old lady who made those popcorn and caramel balls for everyone. She would still hand stuff out into her 90s.
• Giver her a double helping of blessing God.
• When I was young all the black people lived on the other side of the tracks. Every year my dad would take us over there trick or treating and I don't know why.
• Also, when I was little I made my own costume out of a sheet by draping a sheet over my head and pulling a sweatband down over my head and around my neck to make myself a toilet paper ghost like you make in class. My sister in law failed to see the humor and made me pull it up around my head so the sheet would still stay on but, I wouldn't strangle myself which she was sure would happen somehow. When running from some house we had just pranked it slid down my face and I couldn't see and ran right into a telephone pole.
• It was the first time I was ever knocked smooth out and still remember the gold colored stars (which looked more like lightning) swirling around my head afterwards.
• Spellcheck offers "pranged" as an alternative to pranked.
• I misspelled spellcheck- speelcheeck on the first try.
• One year my oldest and my nephew did Halloween together. That night without securing their bags I told them they'd had enough and went to bed. In the morning I figured out they had eaten after bedtime the equivalent of I'm sure easily 2 pounds of candy. It was something of a self limiting thing though- you would have had to put them at gunpoint to get them to touch any candy after that.
• For a couple of days anyway.