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Adam West comes trick-or-treating

I haven't been in this house on Halloween in at least five years and have no experience with handing out Halloween candy or knowledge of the normal trick-or-treating flow. This year, however, my parents went out of town and the job was left to me. I tried to be conservative, judging that since my family had bought ten bags of candy, we were expecting a lot of trick-or-treaters.

"Pick the one you want," I would say, holding out the bowl to the outreached hands who were ready to grab handfuls. To really cute little kids or people with good costumes, I would offer two or three or "as many as you want". These were a select few, including the last group of kids, around 6 or 7 years old, with whom I had a long conversation of something like:

Batman: Trick or treat!
Lion: Trick or treat!
Me: Happy Halloween! You can have as many as you want.
Batman (taking one candy): I'm Batman!
Me: Wow!
Lion (pointing at my half-assed Halloween costume, which consisted of cat ears): You're a cat!
Me: Yup!
Lion: You have cat ears on!
Me: I do! Do you want some candy?
Batman (taking another candy): I'm Batman!
Me: Wow, Batman! That's a great costume!
Batman (taking another candy): I wanted to be the Joker, but I couldn't, because I had to--
Lion: You're a cat!
Me: Oh, Joker is good too! Yes, I am!
Lion (pointing at Howie, the Devil Dog, being held back by my lovely assistant, Mr Dave): And he's a dog!
Me: Yes!
Lion: And I'm a lion!
Me: Yes you are!
Lion: And you're a cat!
Me: I am!
Lion: Cats are afraid of lions!
Me: They are?
Lion (trying to pet me): You're a cat! And he's a dog!
Batman (taking another candy): And I'm Batman!

So... ten bags of candy... FIFTEEN trick-or-treaters.

We have a crapload of leftover candy. We also have, in this household, a diabetic and someone who tries to watch his weight. Which means that the bulk of the candy-eating falls on yours truly. It's a tough burden to bear, but I think I can handle it.

srah - Friday, 31 October 2003 - 9:11 PM
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Comments (20)

gravatar alfie - October 31, 2003 - 9:17 PM - ℓ

I'm watching my weight. I'll eat a couple bags on Saturday night...all while watching my weight rise.

gravatar alfie - October 31, 2003 - 10:33 PM - ℓ

Mr. Dave?

gravatar katie - October 31, 2003 - 11:53 PM - ℓ

Send it to me. I'll help.

gravatar Court - November 1, 2003 - 3:54 AM - ℓ

We had some enfants ring our doorbell for bon bons last night. Totally unexpected. So we turned out the lights.

gravatar Jez - November 1, 2003 - 6:40 AM - ℓ

I forgot it was Halloween last night. No brats came round to extort money out of me though. We don't take much notice of Halloween over here.

gravatar katie - November 1, 2003 - 7:38 AM - ℓ

Our front light is motion-sensative. I took great pleasure from watching a group of kids approach, spurred on by the happy faces of the kids just departing, when suddenly the light goes out (because they're all out of range). The group stops, looks glum and depressed, and then turns to go. I purposely then flick the light switch so it will come on again briefly, and they cheerfully approach.

Ah, it's sooooo much fun to mess with the heads of small children dressed like cartoon characters they are too you to eve remember.

gravatar srah - November 1, 2003 - 8:53 AM - ℓ

"they are too youNG to eveN remember"?

Seriously, I had to read that about 14 times to make any sense of it.

gravatar katie - November 1, 2003 - 1:01 PM - ℓ

Hehe. Just trying to keep you on your toes, dear.

gravatar Mr. B------ - November 1, 2003 - 1:04 PM - ℓ

You should hold an additional Halloween this year!

gravatar Mike - November 1, 2003 - 2:29 PM - ℓ

Heh heh, great story :-D Only fifteen trick-or-treaters? Didn't you kinda have an idea from previous years or from neighbors how many you were gonna get? Hmmm of course maybe you did know and just wanted the candy. I hope you bought yourself some Reese's peanut butter cups.
Did any of you Umich students out there happen to see the guy dressed up as the MCard? If you haven't, feel free to succumb to the shameless advertising and click on my name to go to my webpage where there's a photo. By far the best one I saw. Any other costumes of note any of you srah-blog-watchers have seen?

gravatar srah - November 1, 2003 - 2:34 PM - ℓ

Nice pictures :)

Our candy selection included Three Musketeers, Baby Ruth, 100 Grand, Reese's Cups, Kit Kat, Snickers, Junior Mints, Hershey's with Almonds, Paydays and Heath bars.

gravatar arthur - November 1, 2003 - 4:19 PM - ℓ

I didn't have the scintillating conversations you had, but I was thrilled to have trick or treaters at all. In the ten years I've been in California, they've only come to my door twice. I was lucky my roommate bought candy.

gravatar kate - November 1, 2003 - 4:28 PM - ℓ

And I'm batman!

gravatar srah - November 1, 2003 - 5:57 PM - ℓ

I'm Brian, and so's my wife!

gravatar Mike - November 1, 2003 - 6:56 PM - ℓ

Well good to see you got some good candy :)
I always hated getting home to find out half my candy was tootsie rolls

gravatar alfie - November 1, 2003 - 10:21 PM - ℓ

Our number of trick-or-treaters varies yearly. Some years we only have 10-15, a few years ago we had around 40 or 50.

gravatar batman - November 2, 2003 - 3:23 PM - ℓ

And I'm Batman.

gravatar katie - November 2, 2003 - 7:54 PM - ℓ

And you're a cat!

gravatar Cheryl - November 3, 2003 - 1:26 PM - ℓ

I like the tootsie rolls! And I also like all the candy you mentioned, srah, except the Hersheys and Heath Bars. My address is...well, you know what it is.

gravatar smg - November 4, 2003 - 3:43 PM - ℓ

or you could mail me some candy. that would be nice of you :)

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