In the streets on Halloween
Halloween's a very big event here. At home when I was younger we would dück for apples and try to eat Jammie Dodgers suspended from the kitchen pulley, and that was about it. But here in Brookline, the television, supermarket and local area have been full of nothing else for days. Although to be fair, in Scotland we have to put up with knife-wielding demonic children all the year round rather than just for one night of the year, so perhaps this balances it out a bit.
Not a whole lot went on in our building, though. To satiate the hordes we stuck two paper pumpkins on the door and bought an $8 bag of assorted sweet packets to hand out, but only one group came around collecting money for Unicef and we got rid of about five packs. Our inventory is now as follows:
23 bags of Skittles
42 mini-packs of Starburst
16 bags of M&Ms
43 assorted flavours of Tootsie Rolls (whatever these are)
Two lollipops.
Having felt like I had far too many teeth recently I have begun devouring the Skittles after having sworn off them nine years ago, but there's still a long way to go until we get our salad bowl back again.
Not a whole lot went on in our building, though. To satiate the hordes we stuck two paper pumpkins on the door and bought an $8 bag of assorted sweet packets to hand out, but only one group came around collecting money for Unicef and we got rid of about five packs. Our inventory is now as follows:
23 bags of Skittles
42 mini-packs of Starburst
16 bags of M&Ms
43 assorted flavours of Tootsie Rolls (whatever these are)
Two lollipops.
Having felt like I had far too many teeth recently I have begun devouring the Skittles after having sworn off them nine years ago, but there's still a long way to go until we get our salad bowl back again.