Not getting many Trick-or-Treaters. Could be the light rain, or the Phillies’ World Series Game that starts in an hour.
Random things overheard:
Dad: Get back here, Madeline! We’re not going that way. We’re going THIS WAY!
Madeline: (dressed as Alice in Wonderland, 10 or 11, apparently walking the wrong way) NAH-UH!
Dad’s friend: What a fucking bitch. She’s just like her mother.
Madeline: THANK YOU.
Me: (mumbling out the screen door) Don’t come here with that attitude!
Michael Jackson: I like your shirt!
Me, in a 2008 Phillies World Series Champions t-shirt: Thanks! I like your costume!
5 year-old princess: You have a beautiful house.
Me: Are you Pippi Longstocking?
Pippi: YES!! 
Pippi’s Candy-Corn Witch friend: You noticed! She was upset because no one noticed.
(How could you not with those crazy red pigtails sticking straight out of her head?)
Me: Can you see outta that?
Kid, wearing one of those Scream kind-of outfits with his face covered in black: Yeah. (as he leans over 6 inches above the bowl of candy)
Preteen in a Goth-wench get-up, to her friends: I love it when people let us pick!
Me: I’m a teacher, I know kids hate that.
Her and her friends: (laughing) Thank you!
Happy Halloween! Or as the French say, Alowine!
Happy Halloween. Yankees Won!
Yeah, yeah, yeah… There’s still four games left! Rollins and Howard need to get it together – they’re not hitting! Apparently the flu is going around the locker room, but the Phillies won’t say who is sick.
Happy Halloween!
Ah yes, the Yankees: sports version NCLB and merit pay. It’s amazing what an organization can do when they can afford the best of everything.
ROTFL, Love it! Great analogy. One of the city’s newspapers had an article titled “Home-grown vs. Store-bought?”