A Halloween surprise

Sir, – I really enjoyed your photos of children enjoying Halloween (“Halloween is a right fright night”, Courier, November 1) so I thought you might like to read about the “guiser” that amused me the most on Halloween night.

A little boy of about five years old came running to my door as I was handing out sweets to some bigger girls.

Thinking this was what he was after I went to put some sweets in his bag too but no, “A’m needin’ the toilet please” he said – and before I could blink, he was in my house on his way up the stairs asking: “Where’s your grandpa?”.

To explain, I had never seen this little boy in my life, and he certainly hasn’t seen my grandpa!

“Are you with your Daddy?” I asked as I was helping him sort his superhero onesie as a matter of some urgency.

“Naw” he replied. “By the way it’s bonnie in this toilet, you know?”.

I thanked him and again tried to ask him who he was with.

“I don’t know but I’m with someone,” he said, looking pleased with himself.

Trying a different approach I asked where he lived to which he replied “Scotland”.

“Where do you live?’ he asked.

“Here, this is my house,” I said.

And off he went into the night without even accepting a sweet.

As a teacher of children with special needs, I am fairly used to having random conversations but this one really made me laugh.

By the way, it turns out he was with an adult neighbour and I was the eighth house he had managed to get inside for a wee look!

Catriona Thomson. 8 Ballumbie Braes, Dundee.