I took the two younger kids out to trick-or-treat last night. Instead of heading to my parents' home and neighborhood, like every other year, Tell wanted to go with his friends Ben and Zack. We went with them and the Johnston boys to a Trick or Trunk event and then canvassed a few houses near the Foreman's.
The ninja and Iron Man still ended the night at Mom and Dad's, visiting for a few minutes and picking up the special goody bag that Mom always has for them. Despite the company of his friends, Tell decided that he preferred walking door to door over the assembly line feel of getting candy at the Trick-or-Trunk event.
Wednesday night, my friend Nick and I were discussing how fun and stress-free Halloween might be if we applied some Liberal socialist principles to the evening. We could find the kid that put a huge amount of effort into his costume and spent hours walking from house to house and ended up scoring a nearly full pillowcase of sweet treats. If we found a kid like that we wouldn't need to put much effort in for the evening to result in a net candy profit. Our words as we approached the parents of the hard-working child would be along the lines of: "You don't mind if I take just half of your kid's candy, do you? My kid was pretty lazy and didn't feel like dressing up tonight but he'll still want some candy later. Your kid obviously has WAY more than he needs so we'll just take some." What a haul we'd make!
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