Happy Halloween, Friday Five!

1. What was your first Halloween costume? I don't know. I'm sure my parents dressed me up when I was far too little to remember, because I know they did it to my sister.

2. What was your best costume and why? Umm... I remember in, like, kindergarten or 1st grade, I had this dinosaur suit that my mother got from some other kid's mother because they wouldn't fit into it any more or something. It was this green outfit with a hood, a big green cardboard tail, big green cardboard spines down the back, and a lizard mask. I thought it looked really cool, but the tail made it difficult-to-impossible to sit down.

3. Did you ever play a trick on someone who didn't give you a treat? No. Partly because I am sweet and mild-natured, and partly because nobody ever refused to give me treats.

4. Do you have any Halloween traditions? (ie: Family pumpkin carving, special dinner before trick or treating, etc.) Not really. The one Halloween tradition we did have when I was a kid was the big candy-sorting after the trick-or-treating. Mom had to check all the candy for signs of psychopathic doctoring -- there never were any, of course -- and I had to trade my sister stuff she could eat with her dental work for all her chewy candy.

5. Share your favorite scary story...real or legend! Umm... Go read Arthur C. Clarke's "A Walk in the Dark." That one sent delightful chills up my spine when I was a kid, and I still remember it very fondly.