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...And Halloween Tricked

11/8/2021

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​"Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
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​Available on Amazon.

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​...AND HALLOWEEN TRICKED

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...Continued from yesterday:
         
As it turned out, our granddaughters and their parents had plans for Halloween night. They generally spend Halloween at the house of some friends  who throw a little costume party followed by some trick-or-treating around the friends' neighborhood. But no problem. Tom and I would see our grandchildren off dressed in their costumes then they could go to their party while Tom and I would stay behind to enjoy handing out the candy to the neighborhood witches, ghosts, princesses and superheroes .
         "I really don't know how popping our street will be," my daughter said. She didn't know because they didn't go trick-or-treating in their own neighborhood.
         "No matter," said I. "I know there are at least a few kids around here."
​         As party time approached the girls got into their costumes with a friend who came over to get ready for the party with them.     
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    Hamming it up,
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....and getting into character.
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      Soon after they left Tom and I set up our trick-or-treaters' station. 
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    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,

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...and waited.
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...and waited.
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     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.
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     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, 
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...could trick-or-treaters not be welcome?
      The sun went down, the moon came up, and still no action,
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...except for one time when we heard some footsteps coming down the street,
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...but it turned out to be a couple walking a dog. I sort of offered them some candy. They sort of just kept walking.
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       Later that evening when the family arrived home from their wonderful night of Halloween fun, 
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...we told them about how we'd just been through Night of the Living Dead without the zombies.
    "Oh yeah, that" said our son-in-law. He told us that he learned that night from some other parents 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.         
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    "Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

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    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
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