I know I’ve talked about the age limit of trick-or-treating before, but I stand beside my rule that trick-or-treat knows no age. If you’re willing to dress up and beg for freebies, you deserve them. And despite the fact that I was handing out instead of walking out this year, I discovered that the whole age limit on begging doesn’t apply in the field.

There were several people that came pandering for candy that were certainly “too old” but we still gave them candy. So even though in discussion there’s an age limit, come the place and time when that person is face-to-face with you asking for an Almond Joy, you’ll pony up, then talk about them on their way to the next house.

All that aside, last night was a lot of fun and I was somewhat surprised at the range of costumes. Batman was popular as was the ubiquitous Scream mask. What really surprised me was the frequency of Freddy Kruger. I counted four of them, with claw, hat, and all. It made me very happy to see a classic character like Freddy still surviving, especially in kids that weren’t even born when the last Freddy movie came out.

I couldn’t help but notice the lack of Jason hockey masks amongst the crowds.  A simple and effective costume like that seems too easy to give up. There were a few Darth Vaders, though all without helmet/mask and a few Spider-mans and Ninja Turtles.

The best costume of the night goes to the fat kid that “got it.” He starts to walk up the driveway to get his booty and goes, “go ahead, start laughing. I know it’s funny.” Upon closer inspection we see this cheeky fellow is wearing a big puffy coat on top and a tutu on the bottom. Classic. I give him his reward for being so brave and on the way out I say to him, “good luck at school tomorrow,” to which he replies, “I haven’t seen anyone I know yet, so it’s OK.” Now that’s smart. A simple costume and commuting to a hood where you friends are not.

Also making good numbers this year was the amount of lazy ass kids. We counted several kids that were old enough to walk and make complete sentences being pulled by their parents as they sat it their kiddie wagon. These were total Veruca Salts and their all-giving parents. Of course, then you had the kids that asked if we could come to them and give them their candy. Punks.

Ah, Halloween. My favorite holiday of them all, albeit I may be a tad biased.

And now a woosh through Thanksgiving, Christmas, and on to 2006!

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