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No trick-or-treaters. As usual.
Oct. 31st, 2006 07:09 pmI'm sitting on my front porch with my laptop on top of my lap, a jack-o-lantern on the porch railing beside me, a bag of candy at my feet. I'm wearing my Mad Scientist Local #42 lab coat, and have drawn a spiderweb and a spider on the left side of my face with eyeliner.
I've been sitting here for half an hour, and there have been no trick-or-treaters. There never are.
We live on Main Street, on the north side of town, and trick-or-treaters hit other houses on other streets nearby. But most of the trick-or-treating happens just east of here, and nobody trick-or-treats on the east side of Main Street, because all the houses are like two stories above street level -- you have to go up a couple flights of stairs to get to the lawn. If you live in a hilly-type urbanish or suburbanish area, you'll probably have some idea of the sort of thing of which I am speaking, and if not, you probably can't quite imagine it. Well, they're houses, with big stone walls, maybe almost a story high, which act as retaining walls for the lawn. There's a staircase up to the bottom of the lawn, and the lawn slopes up maybe another half-story or story or so, and then you go up a flight of stairs to the porch where the front door is.
So nobody goes there for trick-or-treating, because they don't want to deal with the stairs.
And I'm on the other side of the busy street from that.
So nobody comes here.
Still, every year, I carve a jack-o-lantern and buy candy, just in case. Sometimes I'll get one or two trick-or-treaters in the course of the evening. Sometimes not.
I've been sitting here for half an hour, and there have been no trick-or-treaters. There never are.
We live on Main Street, on the north side of town, and trick-or-treaters hit other houses on other streets nearby. But most of the trick-or-treating happens just east of here, and nobody trick-or-treats on the east side of Main Street, because all the houses are like two stories above street level -- you have to go up a couple flights of stairs to get to the lawn. If you live in a hilly-type urbanish or suburbanish area, you'll probably have some idea of the sort of thing of which I am speaking, and if not, you probably can't quite imagine it. Well, they're houses, with big stone walls, maybe almost a story high, which act as retaining walls for the lawn. There's a staircase up to the bottom of the lawn, and the lawn slopes up maybe another half-story or story or so, and then you go up a flight of stairs to the porch where the front door is.
So nobody goes there for trick-or-treating, because they don't want to deal with the stairs.
And I'm on the other side of the busy street from that.
So nobody comes here.
Still, every year, I carve a jack-o-lantern and buy candy, just in case. Sometimes I'll get one or two trick-or-treaters in the course of the evening. Sometimes not.