Oh yeah, it's Hallowe'en

[den]

The doorbell rang, and when I opened the front door I was confronted by a 8 year old kid wearing vampire teeth, a black cape, and a viking helmet with horns. He was holding a plastic axe.

"Trick or treat!" he said.

I blinked at him. "What?"

"Trick or treat."

"What's that mean?"

"umm... You give me lollies."

"Why?"

"Cos it's hallowe'en!"

I blinked at him again. "Riiight. Sorry, I don't have any lollies. I have bananas if you like them."

"Ugh. No thanks!"

"Garlic saussage? Liverwurst?"

"EW!"

"Sorry mate. That's all I have."

"Okay!" and off skipped the world's only vampire viking.

Since when have we done Hallowe'en here?

Comments

[hespa.livejournal.com]

We've had one kid here, too. We didn't have lollies either, so housemate aurellia gave him spare Ghost In The Shell comics. Heaven only knows what his parents will think...

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

We hand out books and candy to the ones here. I owe a bookstore so we have spare kids books coming out our ears. They genuinely seem to be delighted to get stuff like "My Teacher Fried my Brain" and "revenge of the Lawn Gnomes". Parents aren't always so keen on them reading stuff that will keep them up, but the sugar would have done that anyway. They might as well read something while they're at it!