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The Twilight Zone
Oct. 31st, 2024 09:23 pmSo this city we’ve moved to (a suburb of a larger city) is weirdly nice. There’s something in the water. Every interaction with a retail worker is…pleasant. Nobody’s been beaten down by customer service. The people at the post office are not surly.
Anyway, this is our first Halloween here. We assumed it would be like our previous neighborhood, Ground Zero for Trick or Treaters. We’re in much the same position: a walkable neighborhood near an elementary school. So we loaded up on candy, stickers and mini bottles of bubbles.
We set up at 6pm, after I thought I heard voices outside. Both our porch light and doorbell ringer are busted and we hate getting up and down to answer the door so we did the usual: table on the porch with bowl of candy and stickers and ys on a couple of chairs. The light outside the garage works to illuminate us so we’re good.
An hour later, we’ve had like five groups come by. At 7:30, after five more have come and gone, we just write CANDY BUBBLES STICKERS TAKE 2 OF EACH on a box and go in because Dragon Age: The Veilguard has dropped and we are jonesing to play it.
I didn’t turn off alerts on my phone so I know kids are coming by every so often and taking stuff, and at 9:15, when we get to a good pausing point in the game, I go outside to bring the table back in.
You know how I know we’re not in Kansas anymore? THERE IS STILL CANDY IN THE BOX. Even the kids who grabbed handfuls—I watched a few via the doorbell cam—grabbed modest handfuls. The bubbles were gone except for one, there were plenty of stickers left as I expected, but CANDY. IN THE BOX.
So all I can say is that the kids here are also super nice, Trick or Treating is 7-9–at our previous house it was 5:30-9 and we were usually tapped out by 7:30-and that they really don’t like Tootsie Rolls as that’s the majority that was left.
Huh. I checked for any civic fests happening, and there were none in our city. Maybe the churches or schools do things, or everyone goes into the larger city. Guess we buy less candy next year!
Anyway, this is our first Halloween here. We assumed it would be like our previous neighborhood, Ground Zero for Trick or Treaters. We’re in much the same position: a walkable neighborhood near an elementary school. So we loaded up on candy, stickers and mini bottles of bubbles.
We set up at 6pm, after I thought I heard voices outside. Both our porch light and doorbell ringer are busted and we hate getting up and down to answer the door so we did the usual: table on the porch with bowl of candy and stickers and ys on a couple of chairs. The light outside the garage works to illuminate us so we’re good.
An hour later, we’ve had like five groups come by. At 7:30, after five more have come and gone, we just write CANDY BUBBLES STICKERS TAKE 2 OF EACH on a box and go in because Dragon Age: The Veilguard has dropped and we are jonesing to play it.
I didn’t turn off alerts on my phone so I know kids are coming by every so often and taking stuff, and at 9:15, when we get to a good pausing point in the game, I go outside to bring the table back in.
You know how I know we’re not in Kansas anymore? THERE IS STILL CANDY IN THE BOX. Even the kids who grabbed handfuls—I watched a few via the doorbell cam—grabbed modest handfuls. The bubbles were gone except for one, there were plenty of stickers left as I expected, but CANDY. IN THE BOX.
So all I can say is that the kids here are also super nice, Trick or Treating is 7-9–at our previous house it was 5:30-9 and we were usually tapped out by 7:30-and that they really don’t like Tootsie Rolls as that’s the majority that was left.
Huh. I checked for any civic fests happening, and there were none in our city. Maybe the churches or schools do things, or everyone goes into the larger city. Guess we buy less candy next year!
