This being Halloween on Vermont Avenue,* there was a half of a Subway Italian BMT around 4-ish, some sort of chips when I was near the bag, and enough vin soave to get the job done.
*This year Halloween entailed:
- first kid at 3:46 - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot lady, we’re still hanging the dang lights!!
- started getting going with the little kids around 4:30-ish
- serious solid masses of humanity by 6
- had to add someone to crowd control at the front steps from the sidewalk by 7:15 (getting dark; little kids in danger of getting trampled)
- ran out of candy at 8:25 and turned off the lights: approximately 2,000 pieces of candy, one piece per kid, you do the math
A brief break in the crowds:
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