Trick or Treating

Trick or Treat!! I know it’s already the second day of November (WHAT?! When did that happen!?), but I freaking love Halloween so I am talking about it ONE. MORE. TIME.

Tuesday night, I rushed home from work to hand out candy to the kiddies in my building. My apartment’s leasing office organizes Halloween every year, where residents can pick up a paper the week before Halloween to put on their doors. If you have the paper on the door, then you demarcate yourself as a candy-friendly home.

Email from my building:

Happy Halloween!

Beware… Tuesday, October 31st, the halls will be taken over by little ghosts and goblins. If you are brave enough to provide them with treats, be sure to pick up your purple door sign, beginning Saturday afternoon! The trick or treaters will be searching for the purple sign to know which haunted houses have treats inside! Don’t worry, our brave Concierge will not allow ghosts that do not live in our building to haunt the halls.

Ok, clearly I live on the upper west side. Anyway, I hurried home because the Trick or Treating was from 3 pm -8 pm, and I have a job. I figured the parents in my building lobbied for early trick-or-treating, so they could make the nannies deal with it. Anyway, I got home just before 6 and I put that sign proudly on my door.

Then, because I am a weirdo, I put my costume back on from the Pub Crawl. Am I a gumball machine? Or am I a creep-o pedophile waiting for Chris Hansen to catch me on TCAP?! Honestly, I felt like the latter because I have no kids and who in their right mind puts on a unitard for no dang reason? ME. That’s who. I will say, almost all of the parents said, “Awww a gumball machine! How cute!” This was in stark contrast to most of the millennials out drinking on Saturday, most of whom thought I was some sort of robot ballet dancer in a red tutu who would dance for 25 cents according to my coin slot. I appreciate the parents’ appreciation for creativity. Maybe my costume was more of a throwback than I intended.

I opened the door once to a 10-year-old boy in a full-face mask that was lighting up 3 alternating colors, and as soon as I opened the door all the way, two of his little hooligan friends popped out from beside either side of the door frame and said BOO. I felt lucky that my emoji-boyfriend was home to protect me from these very juvenile delinquents. I told them they were terrifying and made sure they only took one piece of candy each. That’s what they get for make me quiver in my gumballs. Overall, we had about 50 kids come to our door, which is not bad at all. However, I overbought candy and I ate way too much of the leftovers, so I brought the rest to work today.

There were 3 amazing highlights:

1. I went in my costume to Chipotle, where I got a $3 BOOrito bowl. It made for an amazing lunch yesterday.

2. I found a golden skeleton just chillin’ in the lobby of the building next door to me. I dragged emoji-boyfriend aka my Instagram boyfriend, to take photos of me with him.

3. I had two girls Trick-or-Treat dressed as Cellino and Barnes. I’m talking, FULLY dressed as them. One of them even had a papier-mâché bald head with little puff balls of gray hair on the sides. Their mom asked me if I knew who they were, and I didn’t want to be rude so I just said “you guys look adorable!” Then the mom motioned for the girls to turn around, and on their backs, one said Cellino and the other said Barnes, and they had the phone number written there, too! I told them I’d give them extra candy if they could sing me the song, and one of the girls goes “5-6-7-8!” and they burst into the jingle. They won Halloween. And hopefully their night didn’t end in a vicious split-up like the real duo. WHO WILL GET THE RIGHTS TO THE JINGLE?!

What an amazing night. I know you guys are probably wondering what in the world I will talk about now that my favorite holiday is over, but fear not, the best weekend of the year in NYC is this weekend (MARATHON WEEKEND!), the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is around the corner, and better yet, ‘tis the season to start watching Elf on repeat (why can you not stream it for free anywhere?? Good thing I have the DVD).

 I hope you all had amazing Halloweens, did you see any unique costumes? Let me know in the comments!