I didn't get around to carving a pumpkin but I hung a string of miniature jack-o-lantern lights outside my door so that any potential candy scavenger would know they could find some here.
By 5:00 pm everything was set and I was ready to begin the handouts. I took a before photo of the candy pile and figured I would take an after photo at the end to get an idea of how much had gone out.
My first customers were a brother and sister who had scary makeup on and the boy was wearing some ragged clothes but the little girl was wearing a fairly standard Disney princess outift. I was curious as to just what she was pretending to be and wanted to ask her and decided it would be better to ask if she was a princess rather than ask if she was a monster of some kind just in case the scary vibe was accidental. She then informed me that she was indeed a princess but she was not Belle or Ariel or Pocahontas or Cinderella or Snow White or Jasmin or Giselle or even Jafar.
She was a zombie princess. ...I must have missed that movie.
BTW her brother was a zombie as well but not a zombie prince, just a plain old zombie.
It turned out that she was the best dressed of all my visitors. I only had seven more after the first two for grand total of nine. Didn't even make it to double digits. Only about half of them bothered to wear a costume so that means 4.5 of them did not.
Talk about disappointing! I moved away from Banff for this?
Of course I realize that the area I live in has a high percentage of people who may never have heard of Halloween or for one reason or another don't participate... so, whatever.
So rather than upload an after photo of the candy pile and use up a bit more of my allotment of cyber space I will just refer you to the before photo once again because I'm sure you couldn't tell the difference anyway.
P.S. The title of this post is also the name of a fine movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, in case you were wondering.
3 comments:
Too bad Lorin. Or, lucky for you... depending how you look at it. I learned one year, not to cheap out and buy yucky candy just cause it was cheaper....because at the end of the night, when you have left overs, it better be something you don't mind eating!
Ha! Atleast you got 9!! John and I left the lights off at our house this year as we weren't even around to hand out any. We missed out on that.
Once our kids were done trick or treating and in bed we didn't want any more bell ringing so we just set our bowl outside (it was still 1/4 full). We checked on it a bout 15 minutes later and it had been emptied. I think some young kid scored and took the "remains" of our day. But we didn't want any left overs...we have too much candy from our own t.o.t.ing.
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