One of the things I always do first on getting back to California is have a burrito. You can’t get decent Mexican food in England, nor even in Boston. So after doing a quick grocery run last night, Kevin and I went to Chipotle (who produce remarkably good food for being owned by McDonalds). On arriving at the counter we saw a notice saying that anyone arriving at the store on Halloween dressed as a burrito gets a free burrito. Very generous of them, but think what might happen…

The obvious immediate problem will be a run of aluminium foil. You won’t be able to find the stuff in any town that has a branch of Chipotle (assuming the offer is nation-wide). Thankfully the industry will have a whole month to get stores re-stocked before foil is needed again to cook Thanksgiving turkeys, but it could be a close run thing.

More importantly, however, large numbers of Americans will be going round on Tuesday night dressed in foil. That means that they will be invisible to the orbital mind control lasers. What, I ask, will the NSA make of that? A large segment of the population suddenly vanishes? Must be an enemy attack.

Hopefully someone at the White House will be on the ball and the worst that will happen is that the senior management of Chipotle will be arrested on charges of trying to influence the mid-term elections by blocking people’s access to government propaganda. However, if Dubya and co are not thinking clearly (and let’s face it, that has been the norm for months, if not years, now) it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see them launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran or North Korea. I think it might be a good idea to stay at home on Tuesday night, preferably in the cellar.