We’re Not Lion About Having A Great Halloween!

I’m a huge Halloween fan. I moved somewhere where trick-or-treating is restricted to two stinking hours. We also live in an isolated area of the street, as our neighbors on either side don’t participate, and there is a church across the street. We don’t get many trick-or-treaters, so when we do, I’m pretty excited.

Last night, while just sitting down to dinner, our doorbell rang, and off I ran with a HUGE smile, because it was our very first trick-or-treater of the night! I flung open the front door, and there was a twenty-something-year-old man with apparently pretty severe Down’s syndrome, in a lion costume, looking a little nervous, and an older woman behind him. 

Me: “Awesome! My first trick-or-treater of the night!”

And I proceeded to shove a handful of candy in his sack. I thought his mom would cry. He had a great big grin. It appears that a few houses had not been as happy to see a “Grown Man” going around on what they considered a childrens’ errand.

In this day and age, there’s no excuse to not know that if they are trick-or-treating supervised, they may be grown physically, but most likely, mentally, they are somewhere pretty young.

I don’t care who you are. If you’re in costume, you’re getting candy. And I’m going to be happy about it.

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