Trick or treat?

Halloween can be fun for some but it's rather trouble some for some others. Yesterday I think I raised the spoon with soup about 3 times before I was able to actually eat its contents on the 4th. Each time I had to get up and give out some strangers dressed in weird stuff sweets which I would much rather eat myself. At least I had my fun with it - each time I opened the door and kids quickly almost whispered "trickortreat" I simply replies "What do you say?" and made the kids say it again and again until I deemed it to be loud enough to earn my candy.

So yeah, I had my own fun with it. One kid, dressed like Dracula with gelled hair and fake teeth didn't bother saying anything! He came tailing another group that just emptied their lungs and got the candy but little he knew who he was dealing with. After seeing my "confused" look he weakly said the Halloween "password" which totally did not satisfy me. So I simply knelt to have him face me instead of searching for my face in the sky and told him to scare me... Well, apparently the scare involved a wide smile, showing off the fake teeth, and then a half yell half roar of "Trick or treat?" Oh well, he deserved that candy.

Today I was on a 60 bus (because mommy refused to drive me after driving Kate and returning home) and as you can imagine, you hear all sorts of stories when on TTC. This guy was telling another about his last trick-or-treating which was when he was 17 and lived with his control-freak aunt. He stuffed his costume into the school bag and after school didn't bother going home and went doing his usual Halloween business with his friends. He packed the candy in his school backpack and kept it in his school locker, occasionally visiting it on his routine "washroom breaks" to have some sweets.

Why haven't I thought of that? After my last trick-or-treating mom hid all the candy and wouldn't let us eat almost at all! I think we ate half of it in like 4 months and the rest she either forgot about or threw out after it "went bad."