On the bright side, if you do go home it's like you were never gone.

[So he's heard, anyway. His own experience says a bit differently, but that probably counted as special circumstances.]

...you know if they do the whole trick-or-treating thing here? I haven't seen that many kids here. Not really young ones, anyway.

[And attempting to shift to a more cheerful topic. Like the annual celebration of death and the departed.]