Tick or Tea
My neighborhood is full of kids so we have dozens of trick-or-treaters every Halloween–even with the rain this year. I love being the one who hands out the candy–I crank up my Classics from the Crypt CD and watch the chaos from the front porch. Every year, there are a couple of kids who stand out. This year’s best costume was the sumo wrestler, but the most memorable was a tiny kid in a fuzzy green dinosaur suit. Said munchkin, who couldn’t have been more that two, approached the door in care of an older brother, and just stood there, looking at me. Finally, I said “Do you know what to say?” The older brother said “He doesn’t know.” The kid promptly proved him wrong by giving the older brother a look of pure contempt that I’d've been proud of, and said “Tick or tea!” Then the little one looked at me and said it again…and again and again, all the way down my driveway and on to the next house.
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November 2nd, 2003 at 11:36 pm
Excellent! Karen & I were pleased to have a couple groups (five kids total) come by. Silliest moment was a toss-up between the kid who had to be reminded to open his bag so I could put candy into and the kid who came up to the door and looked through blinds. I pointed towards the doorbell, but the kids misunderstood and started leaving. I had to hurriedly open the door, explain, and prompt them to say ‘trick or treat’. Novices.