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Good morning! I hope everybody had a nice and safe Halloween. My son had a grand time posing as a decoration in front of the house and then leaping up and scaring the bejesus out of unsuspecting trick-or-treaters.
Playing dead and lying in wait...
The mask I answered the door in this year had the curious effect ofnotscaring the tiny children, but scaring the older kids. It was basically a grotesquely wrinkled face surrounded by copious amounts of hair. The older kids seemed to be trying to figure out what part of it might be real; the tiny kids, I think, just lumped it in with the generic "grownup" and paid it no mind.
My favorite exchange with a trick-or-treater happened a couple of years ago. Here's how it went:

I answer the doorbell. The house is dark. In the background, Bach'sToccata and Fugue in D-minor— you know, the horror-movie organ music — is playing loudly on the stereo.
12-year-old girl (dressed as a witch, looking around hesistantly): That music is ...

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