Trick or Treat

Halloween. A dentist's dream day. A behavioral nightmare for parents that starts Halloween evening and runs until the candy is gone. Especially if you have kids like ours, kids that respond to sugar like crack-addicts respond to glass pipes. The phrase "ape-poo batty" about covers it.

So, we do Halloween differently. For the Nowells, Halloween is about the costume and little else. And because we can't find an enclave of homes that give out nothing but good, old-fashioned cashola, Halloween isn't about springing from house to house, knocking on doors.

The kids are OK with this because we've created a new tradition, resting on video games, at places like Chuck E Cheese and Adventure Landing. I understand very few people haunt* these locales on the actual holiday, so we should have plenty of fun without plenty o' lines.

So, go enjoy All Hallows Eve in whatever traditional or non-traditional way your family sees fit.

And, while you are at it, enjoy this joke, courtesy of Dad Huber:

A man goes into the hospital for surgery and ends up with "bathroom issues" during his recovery. No matter how much it feels like he has to go, trips to the bathroom yield nothing.

Tired of fruitless trip to the bathroom, the next time he feels the urge, he decides to stay in his bed. Unfortunately, he has diarrhea all over the sheets.

Embarrased, he wads up the dirty sheets and throws them out the window.

Passing by, a drunk is hit on the head with the sheets. Furiously waving his arms to get them off, he catches the attention of a police officer.

The police officer asks "What are you doing?"

The drunk says "I don't know. But I think I just beat the crap out of a ghost!"

:)


*Couldn't resist. My fingers were just itching to do this.