October 31st, 2005. Where were the Trick or Treaters? I can tell you one place they weren't...

Every year on Halloween, the Trick or Treaters avoid our house, our street, and more importantly, our part of Richmond.

We live in the back hills, where the houses are nicely spread apart (also read as the houses are a good hike from one another, nestled amongst the rolling hills.) While it is not terrible, it is exhausting for relatively low candy yield.

Well, in good faith, we once again bought chocolate bars, but this year my wife purchased the full sized ones. She hoped that the biggies would persuade kids to talk about our house and flood us next year.

Hoping that the social experiement works, my wife was even excited about our low-yield turnout of six. Yup, six kids in two groups of three. So now, we are stuck with chocolate that my wife will invariably eat.

So my question to all of you reading this is two fold. First, what were your experiences this year? Secondly, can one sue for breach of social contract? I mean, we had the goods, nobody showed, and now we are stuck with a surplus.

Let me know.