Diverting Attention

My daughter and I were at the Halloween store last weekend, trying to find her a costume.  For some reason, it's never easy finding one for her—she has this perfect mental image of what she's looking for…and the store rarely has it.

We decided to walk around the store a little bit. It was one of those huge Halloween warehouse places that's a temporary store—it opens up wherever there's a vacant big-box store or a vacant strip mall spot, then closes down after Halloween is over.

This store had...