Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions.
Update: A little girl just chose the potato “for my dad.”
(I let her take a candy, too, for being so cool.)
Down two more potatoes!
Two more potatoes gone! At this point I’m more worried about running out of potatoes than candy.
ANOTHER POTATO GONE
Absolutely no deliberation with that girl. Just, “potato” and grabbed it. Like there wasn’t even a choice to be made.
A father -- of a toddler who was *seriously* torn between the potato and candy -- said he heard a kid running down the street say, "I just got a potato!" and then wasn't sure if they should come to the house or not.
The toddler initially took the potato, then tried to also take candy, then dropped his bag, then tried to grab a bunch of candy, then tried to take the potato again.
Another toddler, going *straight for the potato.* (Though she was repeatedly saying "apple," so there may have been a bit of confusion.) Her parents had to pry it out of her hands to take a candy for her.
Teenage girl: “I want a potato!”
Rapidly running out of potatoes.
Also -- as an aside -- when did kids get so polite? Good work parents, your children are lovely.
THREE MORE POTATOES gone
One girl picked it, held it above her head like an upraised jewel, and yelled, "POTATO!"
I am down to two potatoes.
Also rapidly running out of trick or treaters. It's slowed down a lot.
A little girl, given the choice between candy and a potato, thought for a moment, and then chose a candy.
When I told her she could take a second candy, she immediately chose the potato.
She also told me they grew a carrot this summer that “looks like a bunny but also the devil.”
Some interpretations of that by the ai image generator:
And then there was one.
You:
A bunch of girls came to the door after a long lull. One grabbed the potato fast. The others screamed. "I want a potato!" one said. "Can I have a potato?" And then they took their candy and went running down the driveway screaming "Potato! Potato!"
A dramatic farewell to our last Halloween potato.
WAIT. There is another potato I missed.
A child comes to the door.
They say, “I don’t normally come back to a house twice. But could I please have another potato?”
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I feel like our final spud ended up in the right hands.
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A cat just ran into my office and jumped up on my desk. I am at home. We don’t have a cat.
The back door was open a crack for the dogs. I was working, heard a bunch of calamity and clatter in the hall, and then suddenly there’s this cat on my desk. (The most affectionate and lovely cat.)
Just lying on top of my work purring like a maniac
A huge day today in one of Canada’s first big sexual assault cases of the #MeToo era.
After 70 days of trial and sentencing arguments, Matt McKnight is due to be sentenced this afternoon on five counts of sexual assault. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
We are starting at 2:30 MT (and possibly later as the court is being used for something else that appears likely to go a bit long.)
Some of the women involved in the McKnight case are here, waiting anxiously in the hallway. This has been many years in the making.
Today it's more than four years since the first women in this case came forward, and 10 years since the first sexual assault for which he was convicted.
Like many others, I've been thinking a lot about Pamela George today, and also about her mother, Ina.
I met Ina George in the courthouse hallway in Regina 2005. It was 10 years after Pamela George's murder, and I was covering the murder of Ina’s son, Chad.
While the first trial had been a circus, there were no other media covering Chad George's murder. Outside Ina and her family and myself, the courtroom gallery was empty.
"These two university students coming from a high class family and us, we're way down there. That got a lot of attention from everybody," Ina told me then.