Halloween...

Boo!

Scared ya didn't I?

No?

Shit.

I can try again. No? Oh, okay.

Damn.

I like Halloween. I love seeing all the little kids dressed up, grinning from ear to ear holding out their candy bags.

We don't get as many kids now as we used to, but it's still fun. Last year we had the normal little devils, vampires, fairies, princesses, cowboys and even Jeff Gordon. Yes, Jeff Gordon. That little guy was so proud of himself. I teased him and told him he could at least have been Elliott Sadler! The Dad laughed and told me thats what his wife said!

It's sad that the kids can't go trick or treating like we used to. My brothers and I would be gone the two full hours. We did the plat where we lived and always crossed the highway to the apartment complex. Hey! Lots of doors real close together there. Popcorn balls, BIG Hershey bars (not the little things like you buy now). So much candy we used pillow cases instead of pumpkins or bags. We always got enough candy it lasted us until Easter.

Mom had these huge jars, the kind pickles came in. We each had about ten that we put our candy in and put a sticker with our names on them.
If you got into someone else's jar, you were dead meat.

Yes, we did the bad kid stuff. Soaped windows and tp'd houses. Nothing damaging. My cousin once soaped all the windows on our house. He was mad at my Mom for something. Only thing....he used Dove soap. Came off that night when it rained.

I think its cool that some of the smaller cities and towns around here have special Halloween parties for kids. The malls do too.

But there's nothing like going door to door and saying "Trick or Treat"...unless of course some smartassed Dad says "I wanna a trick".

Now days I would just tell him, "Sweetie, your heart couldn't handle it".
:)