Halloween

Well, Halloween has 'come and went'. Not sure that the English is very good in that sentence!
I'm sure loads of people had a great time, but me? I forgot about it.

No seriously, I forgot all about it. Don't ask me how when my favourite pub in the village was all decked out in the Halloween spirit, but I forgot.

So I had nothing in for the 'guisers', the children that rang my doorbell in full fancy dress costume looking for sweeties, nuts, apples, money, whatever to hand in that bracket. I didn't even have coins which is always a 'fall back' if for some reason I didn't get to the shops in preparation.

Rather than ignore the doorbell, after the first visitors, who my partner spoke to, I personally replied and apologised to the kids for not having anything in to give them.
Kids, in my experience, can accept that. What they hate is people telling them to 'scram' or people ignoring the doorbell.

So why is my door, the front of my house, even my upstairs terrace which is set back from the street covered in eggshells and the slimey remains of the yolk inside?

Halloweeen was two days ago, but I only noticed it today. I knew the police force didn't let me in for something! Wasn't just my height, eh? My powers of observation are lacking something.

Anyway, my neighbours assure me that Sky informed them on whatever TV program, that this is a common thing in England now. If you don't give the kids something for appearing, none of this trick or treating stuff, they want sweets apparently, and just for turning up in costume, not for singing a song or repeating a rhyme as we had to do as kids, and this is your punishment for not giving them anything.

All I can think is that they, or their parents, have more money than sense. Eggs aren't that cheap! They must have wasted six on my house!

And all good thoughts I had of making sure I had stuff in next year for them have gone right out of the window! Next year I'll have CCTV and see the little B's in court!

PS I know for sure these kids were not Spanish, but English. I hope their parents read this and feel ashamed.