Overheard on Halloween


What would Halloween be without roving bands of kids whooping and hollering with just a hint of  Lord-of-the-Flies style menace? I just heard this on the corner of 29th Street and 35th Avenue in Queens and submitted it to Overheard in New York:

Group of children in costume, chanting in unison:

WE WANT MORE CANDY!
WE WANT MORE CANDY!
NO MORE APPLES!
NO MORE APPLES!

Ironically, the New Yorkers who used to dress like every day was Halloween and ingest all manner of unknown compounds in the name of fun have grown into puckered-butt adults afraid of refined sugar. Perhaps those younguns will return later to decorate...with recycled toilet paper, of course.

PS: What would the vegan parents of a kid who'd thrown eggs at a house say? Would they think they'd raised a serial killer?

Also overheard:
Overheard at the Zoo

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