...And Halloween Tricked

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 HALLOWEEN TRICKED

...Continued from previous post:
       On Halloween, as our hosts were out for the evening, Tom and I decided to go out and buy some treats to hand out to the neighborhood witches, ghosts, princesses and superheroes.
​       By early evening Tom and I stocked up on candy and set up our trick-or-treaters' station.  

    Perhaps we were jumping the gun just a hair; the sun hadn't yet set, but we did want to be ready for the first little beggars.
       And so we waited,

...and waited.

...and waited.

     Finally two little goblins came hurrying by with a lady who appeared to be their mom. They did stop just long enough to open their bags to receive the handfuls of candy I offered them, but in truth they didn't appear to be actively trick-or-treating at that moment; they looked to be on their way to somewhere else.

     That's when it occurred to me: Not only was there a dearth of trick-or-treaters on this street; none of the residences - other than ours - looked to be opened for trick-or-treating business.
​       How, I wondered, on a street that puts on the Halloween dog like this one does, 

...could trick-or-treaters not be welcome?
      The sun went down, the moon came up, and still no action,

...except for one time when we heard some footsteps coming down the street,

...but it turned out to be a couple walking a dog. I sort of offered them some candy. They sort of just kept walking.

       Later that evening when our hosts arrived home from their night of Halloween fun, we told them about how we'd just been through Night of the Living Dead without the zombies.
    "Oh yeah, that" said our host. He informed us  that in their community certain streets are deemed Trick-or-Treat streets, and these streets are closed off to traffic so that children can trick-or-treat safely. 
       I agreed that was great for the kids.
       Bummer for me.