"I don't mind." It was actually nice to converse with another woman older than her mid-twenties; even if she didn't look it.

While they headed back, she considered."If memory serves...and this is what I remember from older relatives, because they recalled costumes being nothing more than homemade masks and scarfs. Halloween was always associated with the superstition of mischievous ghosts, so kids would go door to door calling 'trick or treat', either they get candy or risk being pranked on." She smiled. "Of course, it's just said as a matter of course now, no one actually pulls pranks if they don't get candy-and the punks that do pull pranks don't announce themselves on the front door."

She knew kids like that when she was little of course, but more because they would always be caught and end up having to repair things.