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Halloween went well. I have two little kids, the older one picked out the costumes for both this year.
It did rain during Halloween, but I think this had an interesting side effect of resetting Halloween expectations. For the previous two years people had been putting their candy out on tables in their driveway, cuz COVID. Well with the rain no one wanted to do that, so it was back to walking up to houses.
As a parent I'd prefer my kids to have to deal with some awkward social situations rather than get a boatload more candy.
A sort-of mistaken costume is a now a in-joke in my family.
One year, while handing out candy, my father was dressed as Frankenstein’s monster. He and my mom had set up on the front porch.
My father asked a seemingly-shy, small child, who had approached, “Happy Halloween — would you like some candy?”
The child enthusiastically replied, “Thanks, Einstein!”
It took my parents a moment to work out the child had meant “Frankenstein”, and was not being condescending.
Wait until they realize that Einstein was the monster after all. Messing with time, and all.
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A not very bright friend of mine in college got stoned one time and was trying to express some kind of stoner thought about relativity, but kept referring to Einstein as "Frankenstein" and was confused why I kept laughing my ass off at him.
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