Trick or treat...

"Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today."  Mark Twain

Trick or Treat Day in the Village t’day….tiny kidz ’n mommies ’n in many cases, grandmommies who seem t’be getting younger every year….sort’a like cops ’n firefighters…always a little surprising to find out that they’re passing out those jobs to children these daze…

Anyway, all the little kids, well, almost all, want to pet Rusty ’n Willy…Rusty likes all the attention but if they don’t have food, Willy takes a quick look ’n then ignores them…

Ackshully, I normally don’t wander thru the park on days when we have a lot of visitors but I forgot about the Trick or Treat thing ’n by the time I realized it, we were already there…Nabor Doug could’a told me cuz he walked Rover early to avoid the crowd….’course, Rover, being a Pit Bull, ’n in spite of him being calm ’n well-trained, tends to get more’n his share of parental disapproval…tsk, tsk….

On the back side of our trek, I noticed a ‘cowboy’ walking toward me…black hat, purple shirt ’n neckerchief, black pants ’n cowboy boots…I wuz thinkin’ that in Colorado, he’d be politically incorrect when he called out a greeting ’n I belatedly recognized our former mailman…now, among other things, he is the President of our local Rotary ’n they had a booth set up to pass out treats ’n stuff…..

Trick or treating is serious stuff t'day...back when I wuz a small boy, it wudn't nearly so organized...I recall going to a few of the neighbors, accompanied by my mother, got a few homemade treats...popcorn balls or fudge...taffy...y'know, I'd forgotten all about taffy...people use'ta have parties, taffy pulls they called 'em...anyway, during WWII, store bought candy wuz kind'a hard to come by....then, when I got a little older, kids would gang together 'n go thru the village but we wudn't really looking for treats ('n wudn't have got any if we'd asked)....what we wuz looking for wuz mischief, pure 'n simple, becuz on Hallowe'en, adults let us get away with stuff....'n I ain't even gonna  tell you what kind of stuff we did back in the middle of the 20th century 'cuz it'ud just sound plain dumb in this day 'n age.....

Heady stuff for the end of October in this 21st century….