We definitely got tricked

Did kids come trick-or-treat where you work yesterday? They came to Tartarus. Over the course of two hours we had over a hundred little monsters, video game characters, animals, and princesses troop up to our front desk. 

They were almost this cute.

 
In the morning we made a plan. For the first hour, Opie would handle the trick-or-treaters. Then Speck would take the second hour. The treats were all laid out. All Opie had to do was hand them out and keep the tally of kids. Easy right?

Apparently not. Ten minutes into the first hour we got a call in our workroom. "We need one of you to come handle the treats." 

"Where's Opie," Speck said.

"Opie's doing something more important. One of you needs to come."

"I'll be a few minutes," Speck said. "I have to clean up a mess here."

"Well, can Spoof come?" 

"Spoof is dealing with a group, remember? They'll be here for an hour. We told you this morning," said Speck.

"Oh. Okay. Just hurry."

This is the scene we expected to see.

So we have a couple of problems with this scenario. 
     1. When Speck got to the desk, there were maybe two kids around. 
     2. The important thing that Opie was doing, was fiddling with a computer. There were three other people at the desk. Any of them could have done it.
     3. How was it that no one else could deal with the trick-or-treaters? All you have to do is tell them what we have for treats. It's pretty much the world's easiest job.
     4. In what remained of that first hour, we had about twenty kids come in. We didn't get the big rushes until the second hour when they were gone anyway.
     5. What Speck was doing was kind of important and sort of time sensitive. They didn't even think about that.
     6. Why doesn't anyone ever remember what Spoof says? 

Curse you, all. How you infuriate us.