“HAVE YOU BOUGHT YOUR CANDY YET?”

By

Gerry Niskern

Why don’t skeletons go trick or treating?

Times getting  short. Only a few more days until the witches, princesses or monsters come shouting at your door. “Trick or Treat, Trick or treat!”. You better be ready.

Years ago, in our first new home, I kept reminding my husband to pick up  some candy. Halloween was coming. Of course, I didn’t have to remind him because, for days, he had heard our two-year old practicing her new words. “Trick or Treat”. She had it down pat.She was going as a Chinese girl.  She had a pair of blue silk Chinese pajamas and I had fashioned her a coolie hat.

When the big day arrived, Daddy came home with boxes of regular sized candy bars. Boxes of them! “I’m giving out the kind of loot that I would have liked when  was a kid!” he declared.

He stayed home with baby brother and Miss Hong Kong and I took off. There was just one problem. At the first home and every one thereafter, she stonily held  out her bag and gave the poor neighbors the dirtiest look  she could muster, refusing to say a word. She came home with quite a little sack full anyway.

We came home to find out that her daddy had not given out a single candy bar. Nary a Goblin had knocked on our front door. “I would hear kids coming and then they would sort of fade away.” He said. We finally decided to check  the front door. We had both forgotten to take down the “Shhhh…baby sleeping” sign that I had put out that afternoon.

So get out and get that candy and be sure to check your front door!

By the way, the reason Skeletons don’t go Trick or Treating is they don’t have any body to go with!