Happy Halloween
Maegan went as Cleopatra. Darah went as a baby in a mei tai attached to a mommy.
Our house had mostly the same set up as last year except we carved a couple of pumpkins. I carved a ghost (Maegan's choice) and Maegan carved Harry Potter.
Trick or Treating went well. Maegan got her usual stash, and I tried to introduce her to the concept of candy taxes. When Patty wouldn't allow for a taxation lesson, I taught Maegan about tipping your escort.
We must have had 100 kids come by and my assessment of Halloween is similar to past years, that 80% of kids over 7 don't bother saying "Trick or Treat" and 95% don't even say "Thank you."
Later in the evening Patty put our bowl of candy just on the outside of the door so she could feed Darah without having to get up. We heard people come up to the house so I peeked out the blinds without opening the door. I was surprised to see a grown man, with his young children by his side, pick up the entire bowl and dump it into his bucket. Then after he took almost everything he told his 4 year old to hurry in there take what was left. Just then the man saw my eye watching him and he ran off - without his child. Think that's unbelievable? Well by that time I had finally opened the door to drop kick his ass when the mother walked over. With me standing right there on the porch, and having just witnessed her husband stealing the almost the entire bowl, she un-hurriedly stepped in to take the last few pieces of candy without saying one word to me.
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