Saturday, November 1, 2008

On the Second Day of Halloween...


Nov 1
13th St NW Washington, DC

I'm sitting down to eat and the doorbell rings. Opening the door I see two unfamiliar young girls dressed neatly in jeans and sweatshirts.

"Do you have any Halloween candy left?"

"No" I said rather stunned.

"Okay" they mumbled and started down the sidewalk. No apology for disturbing my dinner. No explanation why they were a day late and a costume short.

Finally realizing that DC uncostumed candyscams had reached new heights in chutzpah I yelled "And I won't have any tomorrow night either!"

This post originally appeared in November 2007.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here on the Hill, Halloween was a "teachable moment."

See

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/trickle-treat/

lacochran said...

Now, that's comedy!