trick or treat.....

ok, so for the umpteenth year we passed out candy in front of the bikeshop during the annual downtown halloween event.....loads and loads of candy.....enjoyed the opportunity to see some of my favorite young and not-so-young parents of little ones.....like our friends who have recently adopted their 5th child....or rather...adopted their third child which makes for a total of 5...got that?.......curiously...their chinese children look more like them than their own offspring.....and then there were the folks who had no business trick or treating........like the girl in the witch costume who couldn't tear herself away from her call to speak yet managed to hold out her pumpkin.......gentle readers....if you are cell-phone savvy....you are too old for halloween....and then there were the parents who could barely contain their youngsters because with one hand on a stroller and the other clutching a lit cigarette there were no more hands to corral the offspring......gentle readers....those whose addiction to nicotine interferes with child safety need not be out on halloween in charge of children... ....and then there were cayle's classmates out tirck-or-treating.....to her credit she did comment that they looked too old to be downtown with the little kids.......especially when it appeared that there were couples trick-or-treating in date-mode.....omg.....if you are old enough to date, you are too old to trick-or-treat.......we did treat ourselves to a pizza on the way home......now that is a real treat for this working mom........