Are Those Kids Trick-Or-Treating Or Sipping Mad Dog Out of Those Bags?
I’ve just enjoyed a quiet Halloween at home with hubbie, handing out candy to the neighborhood kids.
There seem to have been fewer trick or treaters this year, but all the usual suspects were out and about.
Princesses were numerous (as they have been for many years). I spied more than the usual number of ninjas though. Luigi (as in “Super Mario” Luigi) appeared more than once at our doorstep. I asked “Luigi” how long it took him to grow his mustache, and the little boy said “it just came that way”. 
A smattering of Imperial forces were patrolling the neighborhood (a few stormtroopers and the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, or at least the three-foot-tall version of him).
I actually noticed quite a number of zombies (and, to a lesser degree, vampires) this year.
And yes, there were a few Autobots in the neighborhood, too.
But the costume that impressed me the most was a home-made robot costume, constructed out of big, square boxes. Hubbie is saying that “the cool thing about it was it was truly retro…it was a 1930s robot. It’s the kind of robot that would have fought against Flash Gordon.”
Thank God kids still make their own costumes. Thank God they still care enough to go above and beyond the commercialized character outfits and do something different.
You see, we need Halloween. Kids need Halloween.
As long as there is Halloween, there will be a one-night cease fire in the battle against childhood imagination that’s fought the other 364 days of the year.
Hail, Halloween!
