I remember the silliest Halloween we ever had as a family.
It was not because of particularly silly costumes.
it was not because someone spiked the punch. Just kidding, we weren’t allowed to drink as kids anyway. No, even as a child, I could recognize it as the silliest Halloween we ever had because of the way that we went trick-or-treating. You see, this was one of the hottest Halloweens on record for our area. Summer hadn’t quite gotten the memo that it needed to cease and desist, even this late into autumn. When we began our trick or treating escapades at at 6 p.m., it was 80° even outside! Not to mention that humidity was really high. The silly part was that our parents decided to drive us around the neighborhood so that we can have the benefit of the car’s air conditioner unit as we trick or treated. We even had a couple of our next door neighbor friends join in, as their parents were particularly happy to have their children supervised during their trick or treating. As silly as this felt, it was pretty effective at keeping us cool while we searched high and low for that sweet precious candy. I could tell some of the other kids running around in the heat were pretty jealous that we had a car with air conditioning to enjoy. We didn’t think we were particularly special but our parents our surely did. They weren’t about to let their dear children overheat that night!