You would think that a woman with my inclinations would be reporting her excitement over yesterday's holiday. Not so much! What's with all of the kids dressed up in my image? I am the one and only witchy woman in the Gold Coast! I don't take kindly to your pointy hats and green face paint. You're just so obvious!
There was the annual Halloween party in Goudy Park on Astor Street that afternoon. You don't know about Astor Street? This is where the hoity toity live and breathe. The mansions are fab, the street is gorgeous. Even the dogs are dressed to the nines on Astor Street. So one expects the costumes would be oh so adorable! My Randee side just loves to take a peek. To my utter joy, it was an unseasonably cold day in Chicago.Most little trick-or-treater's costumes were covered up by their winter coats and hats. Their parents accompanied them as they skipped down the tree lined sidewalks to their neighbor's doors. There, children were greeted by household employees passing candy purchased at the best candy stores. Meanwhile, the parents were served wine from crystal wine goblets. A long standing tradition on Astor Street. It's a whole other world there. I can't tell if I was sickened or envious. I think I should skip both emotions. as they could make me turn green, in public, which would not be good.
By the time we headed home, the city streets were populated with strange creatures. Adult sized people, wearing things like white jumpsuits, bunny ears, devil horns and such. Some had painted faces others just wore silly hats. Did they not see how utterly silly they looked? They were headed to the local bars, of course. We live just off of Division Street. There are several famed establishments with years and years of Halloween party stories. Randee was not about to witness any new ones, thank the spirits. So we headed into the condo where she lives to review properties one more time before our buyer's tour scheduled for tomorrow. We will be going to the South Loop to see 1 bedroom condos with a first time buyer. Randee enjoys first time buyers and is looking forward to the day.
After a lovely dinner with her terrific husband we settled in for a quiet night watching on-demand movies. The noises from the Halloween nonsense were muted by the closed windows and television.This year, Halloween happened to coincide with the end of daylight savings time. So before bed Randee turned all the clocks back one hour. That means shorter days ahead and winter won't be far behind.
Wouldn't you know that someone forgot to turn their clocks back?. What a surprise! Our tour today was nearly ruined by one agent who messed up his own schedules, and ours, by not turning his watch back. Didn't he look at his cell phone? For heaven's sake, everyone has a cell phone! So, the agent had arrived an hour early, not knowing about the time change, and called angrily, accusing us of standing him up. We pointed out his error and he agreed to meet us at the correct hour. He said he just couldn't imagine how he messed up his timing. When we met, he appeared to still have some white makeup on his face and hands from the night before. I don't know what I hate worse, little kids begging for candy or meeting over-indulged Halloween party goers the day after. Both!
On our way out of the showing, the agent offered his hand in an apology handshake. Of course Randee accepted. But somehow I left with an extra mobile phone. Those don't handle deep water well, do they?
Brunhilda signing off for now! Glad that Halloween is over, for this year, anyway.
