Good thing I don't have my own kids
Some kids just piss me off. Like the ones that stole my car, for instance. They really make me angry. Then there are the ones that come trick-or-treating without even pretending to dress up. What's with that? If I do ever end up with my own little ones, they will never go out trick-or-treating without any hint of a Halloween costume.
But I'm also just not kid-appropriate: Paula and I were taking turns answering the door and giving out candy, and by 8:00pm things had slowed down a bit, and I had put on my bathrobe (over my clothes. A little weird.) But then there was another knock, so I went to answer it, where I saw two girls, probably about 12 or 14 years old. They were wearing raccoontail hats, men's overcoats, work gloves and boots, tools, etc.
Me: "Wooooow, nice hats. Those must be nice for keeping warm in this cold weather."
Them: "Ummm, yeah. We're Prospectors."
Me: "You're CROSS-DRESSERS?"
Them: "No.... um, prospectors."
Ooops. My mistake. Apparently I need to get my hearing checked. We all kind of laughed, and then I tossed them some candy.
In other news, Eclectchick's hubbie snapped some sweet pics of me at the Como race, which, by the way was an awesome course, and a beautiful day. If you missed that race, I'm sorry.
And I'm quickly becoming attached to the Echo. I like it a lot and very soon it will have my bike rack on it and life will be good.
But I'm also just not kid-appropriate: Paula and I were taking turns answering the door and giving out candy, and by 8:00pm things had slowed down a bit, and I had put on my bathrobe (over my clothes. A little weird.) But then there was another knock, so I went to answer it, where I saw two girls, probably about 12 or 14 years old. They were wearing raccoontail hats, men's overcoats, work gloves and boots, tools, etc.
Me: "Wooooow, nice hats. Those must be nice for keeping warm in this cold weather."
Them: "Ummm, yeah. We're Prospectors."
Me: "You're CROSS-DRESSERS?"
Them: "No.... um, prospectors."
Ooops. My mistake. Apparently I need to get my hearing checked. We all kind of laughed, and then I tossed them some candy.
In other news, Eclectchick's hubbie snapped some sweet pics of me at the Como race, which, by the way was an awesome course, and a beautiful day. If you missed that race, I'm sorry.
And I'm quickly becoming attached to the Echo. I like it a lot and very soon it will have my bike rack on it and life will be good.
posted by karla at 8:16 PM
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Last year my friend Eric answered the door and said: "I'm sorry kids. I'm out of cigarettes. I am going to have to give you candy."
I thought that was hilarious. The parents didn't seem to appreciate it, though.
First of all, I'm with you on the kids not even bothering to put on a $.25 mask at least. The pillowcases as trick or treat bags annoy me, too. That's just me.
LOVED the prospector/cross-dresser story. HiLArious!!!! Speaking of which, a maybe 15-yr old boy came to our door, dressed in a red terry bathrobe and a rainbow colored wig with some curlers in it, and bright red lipstick. Hmmmm. I should've asked him who/what he was, but I was too busy giggling.
Glad you like the pics!
i didn't get to race como... thanks for your pity.
i'd have gave you hand ups but barb might've poked my eyes out.
Dis - I was wondering how it happened that I saw you there, but I didn't remember you racing. what happened?
And yes, Barb is a very committed and aggressive hander-upper. Just don't get to close to her when she's on the job : )
carbon bars.
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cracks forming.
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me not risking it.
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h2o duty for me.
Prospectors??
What happened to old school Halloween costumes? I'm sorry, but if a "prospector" was the first idea for a costume that popped into your head, you're way too mature to be out trick or treating.
I don't know, Karla; perhaps the kids you thought were uncostumed did indeed have costumes, and you just did not realize it. Let me relate a little story to you:
When I was 12 or 13, the very last time I ever went trick-or-treating, I wanted to go out with a bang (so to speak...). It was around the time that famous sketch of the Unabomber was circulating in the news media, and I figured this would make an awesome costume that adults would totally "get".
I got a sweet hooded sweatshirt, some aviator glasses, a short, curly wig (harder to find than you might think) and a really good, kinda thin, fake moustache from my school theater. I looked *exactly* like the sketch. It was amazing.
Then I went trick-or-treating, and at like every other house, people were like "jeez, you're a little old", "for crying out loud, you've got a moustache", "well, if you're going to steal from little kids, you could at least dress up". It was a crushing experience. To top it all off, the police stopped me on the way home because they thought I was dressed up like that to avoid being identified while I egged houses.
Yeah, so perhaps you could argue that this is another reason to chose a normal (read: boring) costume, but I'm of the opinion it's shows people need more eccentric costumery, to get those doling out candy in the habit of exercising a few brain cells once in a while.
I clicked on "that famous sketch" and there was no back button! Dang. I had to close out 'comments' and go back to the original Karla post and click on comments AGAIN to post a comment. Sheesh.
Any way-
SD: No, our vellas are NOT ugly.
Pencer: Not poke, claw
KK: You're TAKING the bottle next time when I hand it to you, damn it!
Yes!! Barb posted on my blog!!
Cosmo, good story, your costume sounds absolutely amazing. Of course, these kids I speak of may have been in the same situation as you were, but there were some that I straight up asked, "what are you supposed to be?" and they looked at me dumbly like they didn't know that was part of the deal.
S-R, I wouldn't say the Bellas kits are ugly, but I do like stars : )
Hey, you are behind on your blog!! Thought you'd like a picture from today.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/546/3198/1600/Karla
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