Drabble by Kevin Fagan for October 31, 2022

Halloween is the one day of legalized extortion when one can go door to door under the cloak of masks and darkness, to shake down a resident for “treats”; in exchange for not pulling pranks on their homes….

Full sized candy bars for all of the big high school kids always worked for us – never been egged or TPd once.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!

I like the guy’s reasoning…

Happy Halloween!

Rahph hadn’t eaten all the candy?

It’s probably his neighbor.

Probably just circus peanuts and Boston baked beans.

As a giant kid, I got this treatment when I was 9.

He looks like he’s giving a bunch of rocks to a teenage Charlie Brown

I got taller than my friends quickly and had to listen to people tell me I was too old but never say a word to them.

I don’t care how big they are. If they have a costume, a reasonable approximation of a costume, or at least a good story about how their non-costume is a costume, they get candy.

Bunch of teenagers (apparently, according to the neighbors, I have no idea who the culprits were) decided it’d be fun to pull up all the light stakes along people’s sidewalks and stuff them up the tail pipes on everyone’s vehicles! Never would’ve guessed the shenanigans we’d have to deal with moving into town, nothing like that ever happened out in the country!

Probably the neighbor guy!