Halloween 2008

The past two years, I went over to Lyle and Chandra's on Halloween Night.  Sadly, the tradition will not continue this year since I have relocated to Kentucky, but I did come across an old email telling of the evening.

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It was another fun Halloween giving out candy last night.  Of note, I upset a little girl who was dressed as a clown. I was telling her I didn't like clowns and she thought I didn't like her. She went and told her grandma on me. I explained to grandma, it was clowns I didn't like. She replied, "Oh, you're one of them (clown hater.)" I thought, WTF? Is grandma some sort of clown lover to refer to me that way?

This years Halloween was different for me. Instead of handing out candy at my house, I went to Lyle and Chandra's and handed my candy out there with them. There was bloody punch available made by Tina, chili, hotdogs and brats. Oh, and beer. We had plenty of beer.

Tina was making the blood punch and as she opened up the club soda, It sprayed all over her shirt. I told her a little club soda could get that out.

There were a ton of kids on their street. I had 263 last year. This year, there had to be 500. A lot of ninja turtles, a couple Scobby Doos, about 7 clowns and several girls dressed as Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz." No real standouts though as the flow of kids was a lot and I could not make detailed notes.

I gave out suckers to the kids (along with a couple extra for the moms walking the kids around.) The problem was that with so many kids, there would be multiple parents and I didn't know if some of them were the dads
with the moms although I did get a look from one mom though and I had not even given an extra sucker. Our eyes met a couple times as she stood there as I handed out candy to a horde of kids and as she walked away, she turned back around to me and said, "Happy Halloween." I replied the wishes back and she was off into the night.

I'm glad it was a warm night compared to days earlier this week. It was fun.