Who the heck would have thought that all the things I understood about Halloween would be so wrong. Growing up in South Florida I always expected a nice big handful of candy from each house. I expected it because thats what I got, I never asked for more or anything....heck I didn't even care about the candy (don't really like sweets). Later in life when my parents and brother would go trick-or-treating I would hold down the fort and give out candy in the same way I had always received it, big handfuls.

Well tonight, poverty and a different culture collapsed on me as children came trick or treating. Since we don't have money we got one bag of candy to distribute, I thought it would be plenty but NOPE. I started the night handing out a decent handful, less than Florida but nothing skimpy. Soon I realized I was depleting the candy way too fast so I decreased and decreased my offerings, hoping that they wouldn't be mad. Later and later the night went until I gave one kid two pieces of candy. He looked at me and said "two?" in the exact OPPOSITE tone I would expect. He was not accusing me of skimping on him....he was surprised at my generosity! I then asked my girl if one piece of candy was standard up here and she was like "yeh, two is real nice". I couldn't believe it...I had been loading up these kids, depleting my stock at incredible rates for no reason...I could have been giving out one jawbreaker a person and gotten nothing but smiles. Well, this was not so, and I was down to like 8 candies when a group of like 10 kids came up.....DOH. I calmly handed out one candy each until I had none, at which time I apologized profusely.

And thus I went from most generous candy giver on the block to most hated NO-CANDY giver.

As soon as they were gone I shut off the porch light to hide my shame and tended to the bebe. Gonna need more candy next year