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Surviving Halloween

Posted on November 2, 2009.

1. Halloween used to be more simple. You had some trick-or-treating down a few nearby streets and then got back home at a fairly reasonable hour, because there was a five-out-of-seven chance that the holiday fell on a school night.
   Maybe you stayed up slightly later than usual, but you were back at it the next day.
   Now there are parties and festivals and trunk or treats and cities moving their trick or treat nights for football, and other cities not, and community events. And candy everywhere you look. It’s enough to keep every dentist in town hopping and well fed.
   We ended up in downtown Moore for what turned out to be whopping turnout at their 27th annual event. Lots of fun and games, couple of giant corn dogs and some free OU hockey tickets later, we were headed home.
   We hate to use this phrase in the newspaper business, but a good time seemed to be had by all — especially the college-aged girl walking out of the building near the end of the night and proclaiming “perfect, the firefighters are still here.”
   Not all my crew made it. My older daughter sort of acts above most of the kid-type things that I still like at my age. And she had plans with her best friend which, apparently, involved of all things, trick-or-treating.
   I didn’t realize that until after the fact, nor did I realize they had dressed up for the outing either. The only info I got out of her about the costume was that it had a really short dress. Yikes.
   “But I did have on leggings.”

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