can i put you on hold?

a few years ago, i was a preschool teacher at a fairly progressive school filled with all sorts of little geniuses and their obnoxious parents (the parents were the main reason i stopped teaching), and Halloween was upon us.

since we had a rule about no "superhero" outfits or violent toys (swords, guns, ropes, etc)
the parents had to be a tad more creative.

of course, the very obnoxious parents who broke the "no superhero" rule had their kid sent home when he would just walk up to another kid and announce "I'm Batman" and proceed to punch the other kid straight in the face.

besides all that, we saw kids dressed as a bi-plane, firemen and firewomen, vegetables, animals, 2 Sikhs, and my favorite (and most disturbing):

the kid who was dressed as "my dad" whose outfit consisted of a white shirt, black slacks, power tie, a cardboard car (held up with suspenders) and a cellphone, which he would not put down all day. he would hold up his hand whenever you spoke to him.

hmmmm.