Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 01, 2018

Arlo, go walk with a friend and their kids.

What? The candy or the grouchy Arlo situation?

About time they visited with Gene. They would have had a better Halloween, with little Meg!

It’s better because she doesn’t have to share.

I’m a grown man, but I can’t have candy whenever I want it. My doctor claims that I have Type Two diabetes, albeit in remission.

I think he’s lying. I think he just enjoys telling people what to do. Either that or he’s one of those do-gooders who are Hell-bent on making sure no one has a good time.

Careful Janis. Once on the lips; forever on the hips! And it will, some how, be Arlo’s fault

Arlo all is not lost, here’s your chance to make Janis sing like Madeline Kahn’s character in Young Frankenstein

Imagine someone reading A&J for the first time and not realising that Arlo is only wearing a mask….

I only had 12 trick or treaters at my house.

We only had 2. I miss seeing little kids in their costumes. They are always so cute!

Our cul-de-sac looks like Downtown Disney on Halloween. Lots of cute and polite kids in costumes, and a few with facial hair and figures that my wife and I believe may be a little too old to trick or treat… But a fun night once a year.

We keep track from year to year. Last night we had 36 kids, up from 24 previously. But last year it was rainy.

No trick or treaters for me again this year.

I have eight full sized candy bars left over.

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Well, darn it !

It’s not the same world, Arlo. Fewer suburban children, more dangerous. I grieve with you.

This is a GREAT storyline! Totally know what Arlo is feeling. And love how he’s drawn with the mask. Makes me laugh and empathize at the same time!

It’s cyclical. The children grow up and move away. The numbers go down. Then empty nesters move out or die. Young families move in. The numbers go up.

Poor Arlo. He didn’t get to scare kids and now Janis is munching candy and watching him as if he were an interesting television program.

So she says, until she steps on the bathroom scale later in the week and freaks out. And I’m sure there’s more candy left than in that small bowl.

Now we know why Dr. Frankenstein got rid of the Monster. Too grumpy!

I had pretty big numbers….parents drive to my neighborhood to harvest the candy…

Turn out last night was dismal. I had loaded up on PayDay bars since both I and my lawn guy like them, so all the leftovers go into the freezer to be removed as needed.

Darn! Some of the little ones were so cute last night. :-D

Simple solution. Role play with Janis dressing up in different costumes and trick or treating Arlo.

Growing up, we had several trick or treaters until we got in the spirit of the thing and set out an old cow skull with a candle in the brain cavity. The flickering candle lighting the eye sockets looked appropriate. No more visitors until all who saw it grew up and THEIR children too.

Good thing Arlo got that “sulky Frankenstein” mask.

I believe Arlo is missing the fun he and Gene used to have.

We had too many kids showing up to count. We also had a trick spider out front and whenever a child walked by it would leap up and growl. One nine year old ran down the street screaming when it leaped up at him. His sister, who is six, totally loved it. She must have tripped it a dozen times before her parents showed up. They showed up to show their son that it wouldn’t hurt him, His mom and dad sat on the porch with my wife and I dolling out candy to those brave enough to get passed my spider. I held Miles, my black cat on my lap and he got a kicked out of the kids shouting in alarm, then they petted him. Those who don’t know my wife and I thought that he was fake too.

Had just enough kids this year to almost, but not quite, empty out the last of the candy sacks and bowl! Had a Lot left over last year!