Halloween Eve

So, what's happening . . . .

York beats Currie 35-12 last week to open the Class 8A football playoffs. Next game Friday, against Glenbard North. Question: If York is seeded 6, and GN is seeded 14, why is it at GN? I thought the higher seed was always home?

McNally's is morphing into Finn McCool's, a chain restaurant. I'll withold any comment until I see what happens. Just please, don't go generic on us.

Halloween tomorrow night. Stocked up on candy, waiting for the costumed munchkins to start ringing the bell anytime after 3:30. Has anyone else noticed over the last few years the number of big kids trick-or-treating? I mean, BIG kids - like, high school age, driving age, kids taller than me. I've always held the belief that if you can pay for your own candy, you shouldn't be out with the 4-year-olds going door-to-door.

My neighborhood is tucked away in a corner of town, so we really don't see too many kids, other than those within the two or three block radius. We do have about a dozen teenagers, and it seems as though they always show up, bag in hand, sometime around 8:00. Costume? Nothing more than a sweatshirt and wig, with maybe some dirt on the face.

No one for revisionist history, but I don't remember going trick-or-treating once I hit my teens. And when I did go in my younger years, I always had a decent costume - something that was visually descriptive and fun and easy to discern.

Aw, heck, I'm getting old.