It’s Halloween on s- — on Friday. My son is trick-or-treating with his friend. And then — actually three of his friends. And this one friend is very, very organized, and he’s a big planner, and he is — he needs — I don’t know if he’s a control freak or what his deal is. He doesn’t strike me as a control freak. He’s just a very, like, he puts a lot of thought into every minute of his life. He’s a great kid, and I really like him a lot, and I’m glad that he’s friends with my son because my son is, like, the opposite. He is very go-with-the-flow, and doesn’t want to make any decisions and wants people to just lead him around and tell him what to do. And so then he made friends with this guy who has all these ideas and makes them all happen and wants people to be on board with his ideas and makes all these plans and then just makes my son, like, be involved in all of his plans. And so, it’s great. They’re great together.
So, they — they made a map. Well, this guy did — this kid. Okay, so they’re like thirteen years old. So he made a map of the best route for trick-or-treating. And they had a Google Meet where all four of them got together on the video chat and were like, “Okay guys, we need to pull up a map of — of the neighborhood and see which way is the best, most efficient way to trick-or-treat.” And so they talked for, like, an hour and, like, “Well, if we turn down this street, there’s only so many houses. If we turn down this street, there’s only houses on one side. So, we really have to plan out which way we go.” And so then they — so then, the next day, they emailed out, “Okay, here’s the official map.” And they mapped out the entire route that they’re going to be going on their trick-or-treat–on their trick-or-treating, which is far more than my son has ever done on his trick-or-treating. If — we always would just trick-or-treat in our neighborhood, and we would just be like, “You want to go down this way? You want to go down [laughs] this way?” It’s just whatever spontaneous thing we decide at the moment, and there was little — there was very little planning, so this is totally different.
And I could tell, when they were doing the Google Meet, that my son was a little bit intimidated by the entire thing, because they were like, “Hey man, you can talk, you know, you can — you can help us.” And he was like, “Okay,” but, you know, this wasn’t his neighborhood that they were planning in. They were planning in their neighborhood, and he didn’t know any of the streets. So he was just, like, listening and not contributing at all.