Trick or Treat

OK, after 9:00 everyone gets the sprinklers and water balloons.

Precious few Halloweeners this time. Now what will I do with all this candy? Hmm?

I like it better when I run out of candy early. Then I switch to fruit, then trail mix, then cans of diced tomatoes, and then cans of okra. I used to give out the okra first, just because I don't like the stuff and somehow cans keep showing up in my pantry. But I noticed I could never get rid of it all. I would clear the shelves, but the next day there'd be 4 or 5 cans sitting there. It's almost certainly the lumberwife, messing with my head.

Remember way back when? There used to be thousands of trick-or-treaters; they'd come down like candy loving locusts. Then you really would run out of stuff to give. We even went to pennies sometimes. That is low. When a kid is expecting candy, and you give him six or seven pennies, you may as well give him a kitchen knife as well so he can scratch your car on his way out.

I think we even gave out throw pillows one year, possibly even the TV remote.

Yeah, Halloween used to be great. Before Obama ruined everything.