We did the most old-people thing you could think of on Halloween. We eschewed the kids that came around last year asking for candy by going over to a friend's house that lives in the non-kid apartment areas of Glover Park. Its strange that most of the apartment neighborhoods in NW where working professionals and students live have almost zero trick or treating traffic. We used to live in McLean Gardens a few years ago and I had expected some Halloween foot traffic and was sorely disappointed when there wasn't any.
We went over there to watch a very annoying old school movie called "
The Haunting." There was a remake recently with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones which I didn't see, but from my understanding, it was even more horrible than the original.
It was selected for one reason, it was rated G. Some of the attendees, including me, don't have a stomach for Horror movies. I guess I'd take an annoying movie over a movie that was gonna have me freaking out in the middle of the night when I get up to take a trip to the bathroom.
The benefit to all of this is that we got to keep all the candy that we would've given out that night, and now I feel like a kid again with a bagful of sweets that I can pig out on for the rest of the week. Problem is, I know better to do it because I'd be in a world of hurt after downing a pound of chocolate and sugar in a sitting.
