I just couldn't face the real-life video game that is the residential drive from the off-ramp to my house at 6pm on Halloween, so last night, I avoided the whole thing by going to the mall. Of course, the mall is not stupid, and they have figured out the marketing savvy of having kids trick-or-treat in the mall. (Well-lit! No streets!) There weren't a ton of trick-or-treating kids, but there was a definite theme I noticed which, in retrospect, is a no-duh:

Mall trick-or-treaters all wear store-bought costumes.