Update on yesterday’s post: the costume was a mixed success.
First of all, got really lost on the meet-up. Lots of back and forth phone calls in which I could hear screaming kids in the background, taking trams in the wrong direction, wandering into a switching yard while looking for a train station, and eventually linking up after the kids had already been to 4 or 5 houses.
It was an original. There were, among the kids, witches and princesses galore, a knight, a ghost, and a lot of scary painted faces which didn’t really have much definition. Very few of the other adults were wearing costumes at all, which was a bit of a drag. I was the only robot.
One very bright young girl (don’t want to stereotype, but she is Asian) tried to stump me with math questions. I told her she would make a good robot. I wasn’t sure she had taken it as a compliment until she wanted to try on the robot head. Then, all the kids wanted to try it, which meant about 50% of the evening I was walking around as out of costume as everybody else.
So, that was good and bad. The other weakness of the costume was that several of the children (led by my daughter Isabel, who I suspect will grow up to be a vandal or a hooligan of some sort) decided that the top of a robot’s head would make a good drum. It was funny, it was cute, but it totally bent the costume out of shape.
Best candy of the evening: the cookies from Subway.
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