grrr roommate wants me to stay here and help entertain her dad who's coming over later. Her mom just moved out of their house today.

I'm not giving otu candy tonight. Part of my street is blocked off for car safety so that deters trick or treaters. Last year I went around and handed out candy.

This year I decided to save the money. Also kids were out trick or treating around 4:30. Which I think is really early but it is a school night.

Last night I was chatting with a friend in Oklahoma and her town was doing trick or treating last night instead of on Sunday. She's in the heart of the Bible belt.

I have trick or treaters for the first time ever!!! Yay.

I really ought to clean the kitchen. I'll see what time it is when I get done with that.

I actually think it would be very helpful for everyone involved if a town strongly suggested a time frame for trick or treating. While I generally like giving out candy to little kids in costumes, I don't like to be continually "on-call" for 4 or 5 hours with smatterings of kids. I'd love for it to be all within an hour or two and ONLY kids under 13 and ONLY costumed kids. That would be ideal. My neighborhood gets about 200 kids+ brought in from all over San Leandro and Oakland. 90% of the kids do come costumed, and most of them come right after dark. But there were still stragglers as late as 10:30 last year, and more than a few teenagers who didn't bother to dress. I still gave them candy because it wasn't worth it to suffer the consequences of a pissed off teenager. But it was not enjoyable to me in the slightest.

/rant

(and tonight I am especially annoyed that it's happening during a World Series game. But I'm pissed off with MLB for that timing, not the hapless kiddos)

totally understand the frustration. I'm going out tonight and leaving a bowl of treats (ok, playdogh) on the front porch buz i also dislike being at the beck and call of whoever wanders through the area. I actually agreed with Sue Sylvester's opine of halloween.

We've been told that we get very few to no trick or treaters on our little cul-de-sac, mostly because it's up a pretty steep hill and there are only six houses. On top of that, they have to climb a decent set of steps to get up to our door.

I wonder if my subconscious wasn't thinking of this when we bought the house. At any rate, I'm going to go hide in my bedroom since my back is making it difficult to get up and down out of my chair.

OTOH, Abby's gone to her best friend's house so the two of them can take her friend's little sister trick or treating. Abby is in costume (cat demon in purple and orange and black with combat boots) while Nate will be accompanying the little boys across the street as their escort. When I asked him what his costume was going to be, he answered, without missing a beat, "Moody teenager."

Nooooo... he's not my kid. Not at all.

I wish we lived closer so I could stop by for a little while.

My kids are off to their respective TorT locations, and I'm here to grade and give out candy, although the candy skews a bit later in our neighborhood, usually 6:30-8 or so. After the candy is gone I figure it's lights out time.

What Laga said.

damnit.